Superabundance Quotes

#1. Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

Sun Tzu

#2. They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth; - such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.

Lao-Tzu

#3. Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intempe diet.

Marion LeRoy Burton

#4. Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations.

Pearl Zhu

#5. When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!

Harriet Prescott Spofford

#6. America will honor our treaty obligations.

John R. Allen

#7. A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

Augustus Hare

#8. Standing side by side, on some rising ground, they felt, as they drank in the air, the pride of a life more free penetrating into the depths of their souls, with a superabundance of energy, a joy which they could not explain.

Gustave Flaubert

#9. God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. To this extent he is 'apathetic'. But he suffers from the love which is the superabundance and overflowing of his being. In so far he is 'pathetic'.

Jurgen Moltmann

#10. It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Donald C. Peattie

#12. Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#13. I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

Jon Krakauer

#14. I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

Daniel Berrigan

#15. I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

Peter Ustinov

#17. We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.

Emil Cioran

#19. What did you do with time when you had it in superabundance? Where did you put your eyes when you had already seen everything? What direction should your thoughts take, when daydreams could lead you into so much trouble?

V.C. Andrews

#20. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

Dana Carvey

#21. For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

Francoise Sagan

#22. Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#23. Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

Marshall McLuhan

#24. A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

Thomas Paine