#excesses

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

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. ↗

— Augusto Pinochet

#did #excesses #god #i #losses

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#deal #endure #excesses #into #lead

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

#conscience #excesses #feared #more #regulation

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#bigger #bubbles #china #credit #excess

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.' ↗

— James Chanos

#australia #china #clearly #clients #complacency

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#although #always #because #bull #bull market

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

— George Will

#american #excesses #many #most

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

Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#also #both #brought #brutality #building