#excessive

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

#confront #excessive #hysteria #impoverished #language

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#activity #alcohol #cigarette #cigarette smoking #consumption

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#conscious #excessively #feel #know #little

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern. ↗

— James McGreevey

#anything #being #child #concern #deliberately

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#case #discussed #excessively #hundred #ninety-nine

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#debt #excessive #national #national debt #us

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#alcoholic #alcoholic beverages #any #beverages #deny

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

— Salman Rushdie

#becomes #excessively #finest #painful #remedy

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. ↗

— Kate Smith

#eat #excessive #food #many #much

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #clever #cognition #cognitive #cognitive-psychology