...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China. — James Chanos Copy Share Image
The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors. — Francis Quarles 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
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of… — Siang-Yang Tan Copy Share Image
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
There are fads in life and old people indulge things to excess sometimes. — Dennis Skinner 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
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
