So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a… — Marion LeRoy Burton Copy Share Image
When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
If you are always waiting to be, do, or have what you want, your energy becomes blocked. Your body may reflect this… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human… — Karl-Henrik Robert Copy Share Image
I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy?… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and… — Plato Copy Share Image
What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
