Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I’m going to be immoderate–and volatile–I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

So far there’s very little evidence of excess inventory and 1Q 04 expectations seem reasonable to us relative to historical norms.

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… and...

It will be a high scoring match and team batting first should post a total in excess of 250 runs.

Sexcess—it’s about sex in excess and success all rolled up into one sweaty ball.

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

face fundamental challenges, including excess capacity, declining demand, mounting inventories and weak prices.

I used to do drugs, but don’t tell anyone because it’ll ruin my image.

The money we are seeking is the amount we paid in excess of a just and reasonable rate, according to formulas established by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Scofflaws who have doggedly refused to pay their taxes, especially those who owe in excess of $20,000, deserve to be in this Cyber Hall of Shame. More importantly, this tactic may make tax evaders think...

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Once the excesses got to the point where the Fed had to do something about them, the kinds of rate hikes we eventually did see had an outsized impact on the economy — which ended...

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

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

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It’s not so we can find more ways to spend it. It’s not so we can indulge ourselves and...

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

For most of our near 40-year history, we have earned in excess of 90 or 95 percent of our income. But now the job is just too big for us to handle alone.