It was the time
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Excess
He said that people
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of … Read more
Together they had overcome
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them … Read more
There is just so
There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are. Eve Ensler
For the good, when
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. Euripides
When love is in
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness. Euripides
I’ve always been suspicious
I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn’t been put into words and that the moment it’s put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it’s put into words there’s an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false. Eugene Ionesco
when I came to
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire … ! Ethel Smyth
The fact is I
The fact is I don’t lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me. Etty Hillesum
I’ve seen disgusting excess
I’ve seen disgusting excess in business, and I’ve seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I’ve certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can’t ignore it, especially when you get into telecom. Esther Dyson