Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

Benjamin Franklin

Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.

Jean Anouilh

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

Albert Camus

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Thomas Malthus

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

Romain Gary

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

John Milton

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

Lydia M. Child

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

Charles Dickens

Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Craig Barlow

Saturday is moving day. You don't win a golf tournament on Saturday, and by all means I'd like to have a few holes over, but I'm in great position.

Richard Wagner

Quite a few said they would sit out in the back yard or go to a pool in order to maintain their tan,

Astro Teller

We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Adolf Hitler

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

Oscar Wilde

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Jack Smith

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

Lake Bell

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

Dennis Quaid

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Steven Pressfield

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Esther Hicks

Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.

Jean Cocteau

Without resistance you can do nothing

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Augusten Burroughs

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Andrew Weil

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

Mark Teixeira

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Maria Sharapova

I don't do heavy weights at all.

Martina McBride

I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight.

Ernie Isley

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

George Steinbrenner

If you don't have a hernia yet then you're not pulling your own weight!

Eoin Colfer

A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.

Will Self

The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.