We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy. — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
“All the truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you—and they’re even better when done to excess.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination,… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
“Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you… — William James Copy Share Image
I just love glamour so any time period that had a lot of excess and glamour, I draw inspiration from. All the… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about… — Ian Christie Copy Share Image
Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image