High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness!… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills.… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as… — David Shi Copy Share Image
[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag… — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no… — Plautus Copy Share Image
Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age.… — Allen Hershkowitz Copy Share Image
we live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many… — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image