Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Weil

Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.

Cindy Sheehan

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

Albert Camus

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

looks excessive for the right to own a loss-making, share-losing business.

Jeff Greene

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

On a number of occasions, military operations which involved excessive use of force and other violations, haven't necessarily been addressed,

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

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

Timothy Noah

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

Democritus

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

We'll always need some excess capacity, just in case.

There was a lot of speculative excess that had to be shaken out of the market. And I think that's what we're seeing here today.

It seems like every rock he turns over, excessive spending and fiscal mismanagement is staring him in the face.

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.

Chuck Schumer

Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession.

Confucius

Excess weakens the spirits.

The ordinance generally prohibits unreasonable or excessive noise that could be detrimental to life, health, or safety as well as disturbance of the public peace.

Eden Sher

I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

J. B. Priestley

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

Jean Anouilh

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

Grace Jones

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

Publilius Syrus

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Giacomo Casanova

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Jean Baudrillard

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

Moliere

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Jay Leno

According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

Seemingly excessive optimism from wrong-way odd lot traders suggests we need a breather here.

I've never made the trip to or from Connecticut without its resembling the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

It would be our hope to net somewhere in excess of $1 million to give to the relief fund.

It was very important and we did talk about it. We knew it was important, but I didn't want to put excessive pressure on the kids so they were passive on offense.

The report is universally strong and is pointing to growth in excess of Greenspan's objectives.