Excesses Quotes

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

(on Elvis Presley`s inner-circle crew) Well, they were yes men. They overlooked his excesses and the chemicals he was taking. For a Cadillac, they would say the right thing. I said, "God forbid that day comes that you die, Elvis. Red West is gonna write a bad book about you," and I was absolutely right.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Little did I know the excesses this life can lead you into. I used to smoke and drink. I gave up cigarettes 35 years ago, drinking six years ago.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

The freedoms we grant to quasi-public agencies must not be allowed to become a license for excesses, particularly where taxpayer money is concerned.

I understand even the excesses that can happen once you start fighting against injustice, not to condone it but to understand how you get there.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

It`s quite affectionate. She is our heroine and it wasn`t intended as an exposé. It shows the excesses of hedonism and goes some way to explain the mental breakdown that led to her disappearance from public life.

It`s quite affectionate - she is our heroine and it wasn`t intended as an expose. It shows the excesses of hedonism and goes some way to explain the mental breakdown that led to her disappearance from public life.

The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these stirrings would take us. They are simply a sign to remind us constantly that death, the rupture of discontinuous individualities to which we cleave in terror, stands there before us more real than life itself.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.