Top 99 Excessively Quotes
#1. The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.
Giorgio Napolitano
#2. I find myself agreeing with Goethe, who when told he too worked excessively, replied that he had all eternity to rest. Eternity is unavoidable, but until it embraces me, I shall keep myself fully consumed with living.
Marc Olden
#3. I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.
Richie Sambora
#4. We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance.
Duane Michals
#5. We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer.
John Green
#6. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.
Jane Austen
#7. And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?
Gail Carriger
#9. When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Oscar Wilde
#10. To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
Eric Hoffer
#11. It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
#12. As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.
Charles Darwin
#13. Tea, for me, is one of the great subjects. It is a romatic trade, it does not pollute excessively, it has all sorts of health benefits, it calms and wakes you up at the same time.
Alexander McCall Smith
#14. Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.
Leslie Jamison
#15. The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.
Alice Miller
#16. To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
Christopher Lee
#17. If the universe is trying to maintain balance, we must aid this by ensuring that Good is not enjoyed excessively. Or else the universe will re-balance itself by creating Evil to counteract Good. That is the purpose of Evil: it balances the Good.
Amish Tripathi
#18. I love yous are exhanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.
Tanya Masse
#19. Regulate your mind. Do not worry excessively about the future. If you have done everything that has to be done, the future will take care of itself.
Choa Kok Sui
#20. I've always found profanity to be a lot like bacon," said Ciara. "It works wonders on the flavor of your speech, but it lacks impact when used excessively.
Seanan McGuire
#21. The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
Louis D. Brandeis
#22. Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
Paul Cezanne
#23. For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.
Tim Vine
#24. It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result - ruthlessness in political life.
Richard Hofstadter
#25. The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
Vera Brittain
#26. The teeth! - the teeth! - they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development.
Edgar Allan Poe
#27. The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.
Louis O. Kelso
#28. Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"
Bex Taylor-Klaus
#29. In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.
Maurice Allais
#30. He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
Henning Mankell
#31. A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.
Joseph Addison
#32. You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used.
Frederick Lenz
#33. A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
Diane Setterfield
#35. All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be.
Dennis Covington
#36. Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.
David Horsey
#37. Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Carl Jung
#38. But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.
Anne Fadiman
#39. I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite and it's only through many years of expensive and painful dental work that I don't have bad teeth.
Rhianna Pratchett
#40. I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively.
John Shimkus
#41. However, this translation is, in the words of Dr. Giles, "excessively bad." He goes further in this criticism: "It is not merely a question of downright blunders, from which none can hope to be wholly exempt.
Sun Tzu
#42. Don't worry: It's not excessively expensive or a threat to the efficiency of the Internet to keep track of where information came from. It will actually make the Internet faster and more efficient.
Jaron Lanier
#43. Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.
Joan Robinson
#44. I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.
Jo Walton
#45. Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.
Gary Weiss
#46. Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
Shirley Maclaine
#47. It was incomprehensible to her that anyone should be amused by such a circumstance, but both Gilly and Gideon plainly thought it excessively funny, so she smiled dutifully, realizing the truth of her mama's dictum, that there was never any knowing what stupidities men would find diverting.
Georgette Heyer
#48. If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses,
Craig Johnson
#49. When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie
#50. You hit me the instant I saw you." he said, gruffly. "I couldn't look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently.
Sylvia Day
#51. Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.
Susan Cain
#52. When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.
Carolyn Hax
#53. Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. Gardner
#54. There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.
Edward Lear
#55. But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.
Robert Mueller
#56. As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!
Georgette Heyer
#58. I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#59. Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquidity planning by major financial firms pose for the broader financial system, and they must ensure that these firms do not become excessively reliant on liquidity support from the central bank.
Ben Bernanke
#60. Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.
Voltaire
#61. Do I think Photoshop is being used excessively? Yes. I saw Madonna's Louis Vuitton ad and honestly, at first glance, I thought it was Gwen Stefani's baby.
Tina Fey
#62. He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.
Margaret Mitchell
#63. Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
Barry Ritholtz
#64. Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
Saint John Chrysostom
#65. A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is ... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.
Bertrand Russell
#66. What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Jean Anouilh
#67. I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
Ian Jackson
#68. Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.
It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
Oscar Wilde
#69. The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.
Charles Kennedy
#70. Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
Gustave Flaubert
#71. Drunk Rachel sees no consequences, she is either excessively expansive and optimistic or wrapped up in hate. She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment.
Paula Hawkins
#72. My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.
George W. Romney
#73. After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.
William Henry Ashley
#74. There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.
Mitt Romney
#75. To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#76. Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.
Sara Donati
#77. There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer consistently, it does not pile up, at least I do not feel it for the time being, and the degree of my suffering is far less than the suffering that is perhaps my due.
Franz Kafka
#78. We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.
Tony Judt
#79. Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
David Mamet
#80. ...Perhaps New York's unintentional beauty is much richer and more varied than the excessively strict and composed beauty of human design. But it's not our European beauty. It's an alien world.
Milan Kundera
#81. People who newly taste freedom tend to act excessively.
Toba Beta
#82. I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively.
Curtis Jackson
#83. To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
#84. Bubbles form when too many people expect values to go up forever. Bubbles burst when there are no longer enough excessively optimistic and ignorant folks to fuel them. And there are signs that this is beginning to happen already where education is concerned.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
#86. A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
B.F. Skinner
#87. In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe
#88. There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.
Paul Bourget
#89. The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].
Charlie Munger
#90. Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
D.H. Lawrence
#91. He's ambitious - even excessively ambitious. He wants to become a provocateur, but he doesn't know a single revolutionary song.
Teffi
#92. By swap news do you mean drink?" "I do, and that excessively.
Joe Abercrombie
#93. (as a single woman in my early thirties, I was careful not to coo excessively over other people's infants, lest it seem like I was telegraphing my desperation; the necessity of this precaution annoyed me, making me want to defiantly announce that I'd always liked babies,
Curtis Sittenfeld
#94. The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Gavid Hood
#95. Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it
excessively.
Deanna Raybourn
#96. If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.
Barry Ritholtz
#97. By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the cost of the drinks you would have otherwise drunk, it is cheaper than free.
John Green
#98. Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
China Mieville
#99. Elizabeth was excessively disappointed ... but it was her business to be satisfied - and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was soon right again.
Jane Austen
