Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!
Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.
Excessive administration secrecy. . . feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
Do not practise excessive humility.
Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
. . . whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have. . . excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy might be the worst economic regime available, apart from the alternatives. I believe that people react to incentives, that incentives matter, and that prices reflect the way things should be allocated. But I also believe that market economies sometimes have market failures, and when these occur, there's a role for prudential - not excessive - regulation of the financial system.
If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.
History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.
Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself. . . . You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it