Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and… — Plato Copy Share Image
I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy?… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“It is of our nature to exceed ourselves. Overflowing the mesaure is built into what we are. So, too, is rejoicing in… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said two… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house,… — Dale T. Mortensen 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
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their… — Hal Borland 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
When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
