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Quotes About Excess

But the real star of the evening is the food. Tables laden with delicacies line the walls. Everything you can think of, and things you have never dreamed of, lie in wait.
~ Suzanne Collins
I begin to regret those last dozen oysters.
~ Suzanne Collins
A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes I had too many beers.
~ Brett Kavanaugh
To Trump, being a billionaire means plating everything in gold and slapping his name everywhere in huge block letters. It means that he gets to say whatever pops into his head and never has to say he is sorry.
~ Jacob Weisberg
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
~ J. William Fulbright
Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.
~ Gretchen Rubin
So much of love is imagination -- its over-activity, its over-ambition, its over-the-top faith.
~ Gerry LaFemina, Little Heretic
Love provides much needed warmth .. Excess of it would essentially mean burning .. Responsibility will turn love into enchantment .. And respect will turn life into fulfilment.
~ Sandeep Sahajpal
Gluttony is one of the lowest and most animal vices, and is obnoxious to all who pursue a moderate course.
~ Napoleon Hill
Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction.
~ Napoleon Hill
The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read. Yet everyone was so eager to become familiar with every fact that they read every freshly printed document and listened to every radio station as if the great answer was going to be revealed to them in the next bulletin. People
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A energia em excesso liberada em uma reação exagerada aos contratempos é o que promove a inovação! Essa
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every additional glass of wine harms you more than the preceding one
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
we are led to the excessive use of specific products. This concentration is harmful.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A very rarely discussed property of data: it is toxic in large quantities
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
His life was a festival of excess that could not be contained. Deafening music, eye-popping bright colors, sugar added to almost everything he ate. Quinn's life was a bullet in a barrel ready to explode.
~ Neal Shusterman
You've got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.
~ Neal Shusterman