Famous Quotes & Sayings

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Cindy Sheehan

I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit.

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

Hosni Mubarak

heedlessness of all values and laws and its excessive rejection of peace and challenging the world.

Woody Harrelson

Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Samuel Johnson

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

If Portsmouth were to be closed, the U.S. would be left with only 8 percent excess capacity,

Suzi Quatro

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on: give me excess of it...

In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.

In a normal winter flu year... flu actually kills in excess of 12,000 people,

The Fed is hanging onto its long-term view. Some will say this is just excessive optimism.

Sadako Ogata

The excessive use of violence in Kosovo has to be contained,

Henry Adams

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

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.

James Chanos

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

It's hard to get wage gains when you've got a persistently excess labor supply.

That, in and of itself, must have a value in excess of $1 million.

That letter generated in excess of $350,000. Some of the gifts were low-five-figure gifts. Most were high-three-figure gifts. They involved some real sacrificial giving on the part of many, many people.

It's like anything else. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. Excessive throwing never hurts a pitcher's arm; it's the lack of throwing that hurts the arm.

Joseph Joubert

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Moliere

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Publilius Syrus

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Neil Peart

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

Ouida

Excess always carries its own retribution.

Ouida

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

John Crowe Ransom

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.