Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Stern

We haven't had excessive fisticuffs. These are things that commissioners worry about. And truth be told, our player reputation in the testing that we do is rebounding quite well from a year ago.

We have witnessed a worrying trend of excessive use of force.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

Albert Camus

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

Confucius

Excess weakens the spirits.

John McCarthy

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

Edmund Burke

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Axl Rose

I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.

There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude.

Juvenal

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Kate Smith

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

William Shakespeare

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Camille Paglia

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Bob Beauprez

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Bernard Tschumi

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

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

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,

Kenneth Koch

I mean, there are excesses all over the place. People are always saying what are the different schools of American poetry.

Jean Anouilh

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

This market is not moving on fundamentals. There's an incessant flow of money, and you have a lot of stocks at excessive valuations. Once the flow of money subsides, you can look for a severe correction.

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.

In a competitive industry, people would have competed away the excess profits.

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

William Shakespeare

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

James Chanos

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

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.

Plautus

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

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.

William Hazlitt

An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity.