Excessive Quotes

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. - Aldous Huxley

You have to select components that are sized for the job. For example, larger gear sets generally have lower efficiencies. Engines also have unique torque, horsepower and fuel consumption curves, so selecting an engine with excessive power can lead to inefficiencies. Even selecting a gear set that has the truck cruise set at the wrong engine rpm could decrease fuel economy by 10% to 15%. - Mike Dozier

You have five- and six-day period of excessive rainfall, then you have a break sometimes. - Gerald Bell

You get into a city at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning off a back-to-back, you don't want to have put all of that stuff on. I just think it's a little too excessive. - DeShawn Stevenson

You do have a high-frequency hearing loss, most likely due to that excessive noise exposure. - Dawn Maniskas

You can use allocations or strategies that will seem unproductive or even excessively volatile, but when you put them in the context of a larger portfolio, they play a smoothing role. - Tony Werley

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. - Gustave Flaubert

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine. - Plotinus

With the primary coming up, it doesn't hurt Spitzer at all to be fighting with Pataki. It might be the right time for Spitzer to come back from what some said was an excessively cordial relationship. - Gerald Benjamin

With corporations sitting on excessively strong balance sheets, they've got the growth to set off a major spending cycle. - James Paulsen