Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric,… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in… — Allen West Copy Share Image
I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became… — Elton John Copy Share Image
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A happy clown inside spat out a pig-in-a-blanket and yelled at the cute waitress holding the tray. … I had to throw… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
If you are always waiting to be, do, or have what you want, your energy becomes blocked. Your body may reflect this… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the… — Timothy L. O'Brien Copy Share Image
Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
