He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It's important that when you do standup, you do small places like coffee shops and also big places like colleges. It helps… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
“Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half… — Chris Roberts Copy Share Image
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out… — Paul Laxalt Copy Share Image
The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard Copy Share Image
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style...Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses]… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became… — Elton John Copy Share Image
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