#excess

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#clean #commitment #economy #environment #equality

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#although #argue #came #certainly #excesses

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fine #life #living #make #worth

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#develop #each #excesses #extremes #free

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#calms #consequences #excess #fatal #heats

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#beyond #blowing #called #come #excessively

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#congress #excesses #going #pale #today

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. ↗

— Menander

#chief #evil #excess #goodness

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#business #continue #enormous #excessive #family

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#excess #faults #husbands #often #their