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Quotes About Excessive

The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when carried out across the board.
~ Charles Dallara
Nihil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio (Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness)
~ Francesco Petrarca
You have to take springtime on its own terms in the Ozarks: there is no other way. It can't be predicted. It is unsteady, full of promise, promise that is sometimes broken. It is also bawdy, irrepressible, excessive, fecund, willful.
~ Sue Hubbell
Há alguma exageração nisto; mas o discurso humano é assim mesmo, um composto de partes excessivas e partes diminutas, que se compensam, ajustando-se.
~ Machado de Assis
This excessive love for "the balance of power" is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.
~ John Bright
Excessive record-keeping is a symptom of insecurity and defensive thinking. It indicates that you are less concerned attaining objectives than you are with documentation, and that your thinking is oriented to the past, not the present.
~ Edwin Bliss
An organisation that truly values its human capital as an asset makes an excessive investment on the employees' welfare than an extravagant expenditure on publicity warfare.
~ Anuj Somany
The photo and video coverage of some affluent couple's marriage is so much done by media as if the entire population of the nation is invitee to their wedding function.
~ Anuj Somany
H]istory is baroque.
~ Ariel Durant
Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
~ Armistead Maupin
I used to see an ridiculous quantity of films; I think I saw every possible movie.
~ Ginevra Elkann
El cansancio peligroso conforma una condición atmosférica inestable del alma y presagia el riesgo de una gran destrucción. Se trata de una fatiga interior acumulada a través de meses y meses, y no siempre se manifiesta con cansancio físico. Es más, puede estar enmascarada tras una actividad excesiva y un trabajo exagerado.
~ Ruth Haley Barton
But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.
~ Margaret Atwood
But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.
~ Anne Fadiman
I had no fear of her recognizing anything abnormal in Lestat, what with his tanned skin, except perhaps his excessive beauty.
~ Anne Rice
Well, I should like a plan that doesn't result in the death of my heir. (Eli) Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.
~ Paul Valery
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
~ John McCarthy
The present called for justice, not for nostalgia over another extravagant failure on the part of blind and incompetent white men.
~ Elizabeth Hay
Excesivo como casi todo en él: su cólera y sus buenos humores
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Ballet dancers have the opposite problem to most people in that, because of their excessive flexibility, their physical capacity outstrips their intellectual consciousness.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.
~ Charles Kennedy
Trying to extract every last dime out of your financial decisions is likely to incur significant social and psychic costs. As you've no doubt noticed, not everyone likes a person who's obsessed with money. And even if everyone did, an insistence on always making the best financial decision in a given situation can lead to excessive worry and anxiety.
~ Gary Belsky
There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.
~ Gaston Leroux