Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping. — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley 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
In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to… — Pope Pius VI Copy Share Image
We are the United States of America. And it's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't… — Hillary 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
We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic. I see… — Dallin H. Oaks 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 are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
