I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Intimates are predestined.
The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have pushed down home prices for responsible homeowners.
There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.
The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
Excess is success.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
I need to be fit and strong, and I don't want to carry any excess fat.
