Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though excessive congestion and bottlenecks make for slow moving, as longs as you have them moving at a reasonable speed, you don't have to use it.

Even though excessive congestion and bottlenecks make for slow moving, as long as you have them moving at a reasonable speed, you don't have to use it.

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.

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.

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

Jean Anouilh

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

We went in and we squeezed on that excessive margin.

We feel this is in excess of what the fair market value is,

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.

It's really just a waiting game. You can't expect excesses to be done correcting just because you want them to be done correcting.

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.

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

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.

David Gergen

There's a tendency after you win your second term to think you're invulnerable. You're not just king of the mountain, you've mastered the mountain. That can often lead to mistakes of excessive pride.

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

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.

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.

Joseph Joubert

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Moliere

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Grace Jones

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

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.

John Williams

If (FOMC officials) want to see whether the excessive growth is actually showing through to inflation pressure, the place to look is labor costs.

Jose Contreras

I don't think there's such a thing as an excess of pitching.

Hippocrates

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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.

It is the inevitable backslide toward monopoly and results from excessive deregulation and weak antitrust oversight.

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