Excessive Quotes

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

“I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. Most of all I dreaded paying a bill-my awkwardness when I handed over the money after buying something did not arise from my stinginess, but from excessive tension, excessive embarrassment, excessive uneasiness and apprehension.”

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

“Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.”

“Defined simply, narcissism means excessive self-preoccupation; pragmatism means excessive focus on work, achievement, and the practical concerns of life; and restlessness means an excessive greed for experience, an overeating, not in terms of food but in terms of trying to drink in too much of life...And constancy of all three together account for the fact that we are so habitually self-absorbed by heartaches, headaches, and greed for experience that we rarely find the time and space to be in touch with the deeper movements inside of and around us.”

“Down close to certain flowersall excesses are sufficiencies”

“Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.”

“I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.”

“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution”