“Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“Our lives would have been a hell-of-a-lot better, had we known how to survive with what we have in excess.” — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television. — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. — Yvon Chouinard 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware.… — Landon Donovan 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
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
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
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
There are two kinds of businesses: The first earns 12%, and you can take it out at the end of the year.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. — George Will Copy Share Image
“I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.” — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. — Plato Copy Share Image
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“The reason that you are blessed in excess with anything is so that you can give it away to someone else in… — Dee Dee M. Scott Copy Share Image
Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the… — Mahavira Copy Share Image
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil. — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
