Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manufacturers are still miserable, and output will keep falling for some time, but they can now see light at the end of the tunnel, ... They are working off their excess inventory ... and are now hopeful of stronger orders by the year-end.

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

Carrie Fisher

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Rod Stewart

That was a turning point in my career, ... We've sold in excess of 3 million (copies) in the U.S. alone.

I thought it was an awfully big fine for what involvement I had. I thought it was an excessive fine.

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

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

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

Cindy Sheehan

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

Samuel Butler

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Hosni Mubarak

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

Charles Churchill

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Timothy Noah

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

Benjamin Disraeli

There is moderation even in excess.

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.

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,

Arthur Koestler

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

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

Democritus

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

Vince Vaughn

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

Wole Soyinka

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

Neil Kinnock

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Alexander Hamilton

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.

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.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Will Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Chuck Schumer

Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession.

When you get up into winds in excess of 155 mph you have enough damage,

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.