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Excessive Quotes

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

– Lew Wallace

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

– Salman Rushdie

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

– Sandra Day O’Connor

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

– Saint Ignatius

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

– Rick Perry

Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you’ve done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

– S. Jay Olshansky

There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It’s one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!

– Sebastian Thrun

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

– Roland Barthes

I’ve always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

– Robert M. Parker, Jr.

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

– Richard Dooling

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

– Rand Paul

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don’t get into public service.

– Sean Hannity

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

– Randi Weingarten

Government attempts to ban fracking should be aborted. The government should lift the burdensome regulations that have made the construction of nuclear power plants excessively expensive, thereby freeing up even more natural gas for direct use or for methanol manufacture.

– Robert Zubrin

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

It’s hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice – not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.

– Randi Weingarten

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

– Rem Koolhaas

As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

– Ralph Hall

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world’s climate.

– Robert Higgs

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

I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.

– Thomas Piketty

The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.

– Sam Graves

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

I think there’s a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we’re losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that’s necessary for living together and building a community.

– Vincent Nichols

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

– William Blake

From time to time, an excessively strong dollar may have negative short-term implications on the economy.

– Steve Mnuchin

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

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

– Wendell Willkie

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

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

– Theodore Parker

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