Quotes About Excess

As far as I'm concerned, Americans don't drink nearly enough. A good alcoholic poisoning of the brain now and then clears it out in a way that nothing else can.

I've never understood a society of want. We don't have a society of want—not on a general level. We have a society of total surplus: unwanted goods and unwanted people.

Crime is a product of social excess.

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.

A lot of people say they eat, drink, and sleep sports, but does anyone really do it, ingesting nothing but Dodger Dogs and Soda Shaqs and Greg Norman Zinfandels 24/7?

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

I said, '200 pairs of jeans,' and then it just kind of went everywhere. I don't really own 200 pairs of jeans - I own a million pairs of jeans. No, but I definitely have a very solid amount. I won't say a number, but it's aggressive.

For me, if we're going to have a guitar solo, it needs to be over the top.

We've all loved someone way too freakin' much.

I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

I think," he says, smiling, "God overdid it.

There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding

Baz?lar? der ki iyinin a??r?s? olmaz çünkü a??r? oldu mu zaten iyi deÄŸil demektir. Ä°nsan?n gözü karanl?kta da iyi görmez fazla ???kta da.

Paul lay in his room, letting the sick, glorious feeling of grease and carbohydrates carry him away. He wanted to think of nothing more than the feeling of his stomach, obscenely full for the first time ever.

too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.

And they didn't stop at safety, either. They wanted comfort, and then they wanted luxury, and then they wanted excess, and every step of the way they still wanted to be safe, even as they made themselves more and more of a tempting target, and the only way they could stay safe was to have enough power to keep everyone off that wanted what they had.

INTEMPERANCE.

Intemperance. The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

What a mess the world is in," cried the man, reading the news in his paper. "It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

To je ona stara, reci mi ?ime se razme?eš i re?i ?u ti ?ime oskudijevaš.

Se conoce que, en las fases más avanzadas del cretinismo, la falta de ideas se compensa con el exceso de ideologías.

Cómo está el mundo —exclamó el hombre ante las noticias de su periódico—. Se conoce que, en las fases más avanzadas del cretinismo, la falta de ideas se compensa con el exceso de ideologías.