Quotes & Sayings About Excessiveness

Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy who makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every available bit of it. And if it's toxic, if it turns your liver into a hard little rock of scar tissue, or curls your memory at the edges like something burned in a fire, or makes your stomach flop, or your mind ache, or your personality contorted, you shouldn't buy into the bullshit about temperance. — Koren Zailckas

When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Down close to certain flowers
all excesses are sufficiencies — David Giannini

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies. — Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness. — Brian L. Weiss

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger. — Rene Descartes

Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack. — Bryant McGill

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food, — Blaize Clement

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness. — Lucinda Williams

How can the creation challenge and control the Creator? Oh mortal man, know that there is an immortal God with an immortal power! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me. — Sufjan Stevens

You didn't identify with happy people, and in your excessiveness you projected onto those who had failed in everything, or succeeded in nothing. — Edouard Leve

I gradually fell from grace; alas, you dove in headfirst! — Ahmed Mostafa

You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about Hollywood. — Debra Messing

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness. — Harvey Cushing