[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and… — Bill McCollum Copy Share Image
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum… — Plautus Copy Share Image
“...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The nature of markets, and that includes player acquisition markets, is such that sooner or later any set of successful formulae that… — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If only happiness when in excess, bubbles over, and can contaminate others; with only a few happy ones; in just a few… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen?… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I… — John Gabriel Stedman Copy Share Image
I think that's something that always enticed me about the '40s - back then, the glamour and the style - you couldn't… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim… That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Don't wait for what you don't have. Use what you have, begin now and what you don't even expect will come alongside… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all… — Ronen Sen Copy Share Image
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we… — Rahm Emanuel 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
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
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
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
Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
“Too much brightness blinds the eyes. Too much sound deafens the ears. Too much flavour ruins the tongue. Chasing desires to excess… — Laozi Copy Share Image