Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

This is a market that goes down on sentiment and goes up on excessive fear. There was excessive fear and a deflationary picture. Markets will rally on excessive fear and it seems to be an end-of-the-week technical rally.

This is a market that goes down on sentiment and goes up on excessive fear, ... There was excessive fear and a deflationary picture. Markets will rally on excessive fear and it seems to be an end-of-the-week technical rally.

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

Romain Gary

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Neil Peart

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

William Blake

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

P. J. O'Rourke

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

Benjamin Franklin

Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.

Paul Watson

Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.

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.

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.

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.

We went in and we squeezed on that excessive margin.

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

Walt Whitman

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

Richard Le Gallienne

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

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.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Jeremy Collier

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

George Will

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

Hippocrates

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Euripides

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Francis Bacon

In charity there is no excess.

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.

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

Heather Graham

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Jena Malone

It wasn't worth sifting through such excessive b.s., ... I tried to fit in and put on makeup and pretty dresses, but I always felt like a weirdo.

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