Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards… — Ugo Cavallero Copy Share Image
Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as… — David Shi Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
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… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking,… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about… — Ian Christie Copy Share Image
But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged.… — Roger Goodell Copy Share Image
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
“A large part of our excessive, unnecessary manifestations come from a terror that if we are not somehow signaling all the time… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination,… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can,… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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