I just love glamour so any time period that had a lot of excess and glamour, I draw inspiration from. All the… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you… — William James Copy Share Image
“Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
“[...] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint;… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!"… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all… — John Gofman Copy Share Image
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.… — Moliere Copy Share Image
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of… — David Easton Copy Share Image
What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn… — Huw Irranca-Davies Copy Share Image
No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
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