You're in a mess, and in excess.

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

— Betsy Lerner

Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too…

— Gary Shilling

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness…

— Phyllis McGinley

Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past…

— Henry Paulson

“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out…

— Neal Stephenson

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is…

— William Penn

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It…

— Camille Paglia

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or…

— Dale T. Mortensen

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

— Rick Aster

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

— Ian Gardner

This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a…

— Stephanie Zacharek

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 open at…

— Kay Ryan

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…

— Soren Kierkegaard

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

— Syd

Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses…

— Hillary Clinton