Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the…

Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over…

— John H. Sununu

And I said couldn't we be more moderate? And he said why? And I said because I care about the team. And he said,…

— Jonathan Ive

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear…

— Claire McCaskill

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The…

— John Stuart Mill

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious…

— Dogen

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

— Michel de Montaigne

You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate…

— Dave Barry

In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser…

— Bertrand Russell

Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have…

— Sam Harris

And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their…

— Thucydides

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

— Ovadia Yosef

It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in…

— Barney Frank

Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that…

— Mara Liasson

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

— Athenaeus