Excessive

Famous quotes containing the word excessive:

    “Adolescent girls were fighting a mother’s interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother’s excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.”
    —Terri Apter (20th century)

    “The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “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 (1894–1963)