The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr Copy Share Image
“Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest… — Earle Gray Copy Share Image
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess — John Selden Copy Share Image
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. — James Young Simpson Copy Share Image
She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess. — Terence Copy Share Image
There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking,… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own… — John Keats Copy Share Image
To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it,… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Only a very small proportion of us take those excesses with us into later life. In the age before everyone had a… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance.… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint;… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess. — Alvin Leung Copy Share Image
Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
