#excess

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess. ↗

— Peter Utley

#excess #never #out #scandal #search

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#excess #only #sometimes #vices #virtues

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. ↗

— Will Durant

#basic principle #every #excess #form #government

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#certainly #disgusting #especially #excess #get

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. ↗

— Xenophon

#dead #excess #grief #injury #know

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

— Heather Graham

#get #hours #i #need #night

I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#crazy #create #debt #develop #done

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. ↗

— Horace

#clogged #down #drags #excess #mind

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. ↗

— James Buchan

#body #business #character #depression #economic

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. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#always #any #early #either #except