#excessive

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. ↗

— Kurt Student

#another #british #casualties #containers #contributed

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confusion #disorientation #excess #excessive #eye

People who newly taste freedom tend to act excessively. ↗

— Toba Beta

#newly-at-freedom #attitude

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

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beautiful #created #excessively #ideal #man

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. ↗

— Tim Vine

#i #life #one thing #pun #real

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#artist #beyond #excessively #him #literature

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need. ↗

— Heather Graham

#get #hours #i #need #night

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service. ↗

— Sean Hannity

#best #early #everything #excessive #get