Top 100 Moderate Quotes
#1. If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds.
Charlie Munger
#2. I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
Jean De La Bruyere
#3. There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.
Jean De La Bruyere
#4. Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting ... in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.
John Stuart Mill
#5. If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy ... a banana republic.
Paul Keating
#6. Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.
Gijs De Vries
#7. Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#8. President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
Ted Cruz
#9. He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.
Alphonso Jackson
#11. A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
Mary Shelley
#12. These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old.
Ann Coulter
#13. When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part.
Suzanne Pleshette
#14. When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
Brian De Palma
#15. It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.
Pierre Charron
#16. He changed his position on virtually everything. I'm a moderate Republican, that's what I am, so I'd be inclined to support someone like Mitt Romney. But all those changes give me pause.
Rudy Giuliani
#17. In the name of Our Lord, Monsieur, do all you can to regain your health and take good care of it so that you can serve God and the poor for a longer time. This moderate care does not preclude the obligation we have of generously risking our lives when the salvation of our neighbor is concerned.
Vincent De Paul
#18. Behind his careful political flippancy and cynicism one might also detect a certain careless sincerity, which would probably in the long run save him from moderate success, and turn him into one of the brilliant failures of his day.
Saki
#19. The bottom line is that you will not lose fat effectively with exercise-driven weight-loss efforts unless your eating habits moderate insulin production.
Mark Sisson
#20. Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.
Katharine Weymouth
#21. Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#22. As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.
Ann Coulter
#23. One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price ... until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims.
Kelley Armstrong
#24. By "radical" I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched for the deepest roots of problems. The opposite of radical is not "moderate" or "conservative" but "common.
Matthew Stewart
#25. Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]
Juvenal
#26. A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.
Haruki Murakami
#27. Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
William Lloyd Garrison
#28. Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.
Mara Liasson
#30. Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Margot Asquith
#31. Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.
Pope Theodoros II
#34. I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
Carl Paladino
#35. In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.
Timothy B. Tyson
#36. Yeah, the elf looks good in the sun," Jenks smart-mouthed, the pixy currently sitting on the bottom of my hooped earrings and out of the moderate wind. "When you going to put us all out of your misery and boink him?
Kim Harrison
#37. The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
Epictetus
#38. It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
George W. Bush
#39. Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
Will C. Barnes
#40. I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.
John Stuart Mill
#41. According to Harold Fleming, for instance, who was then director of the Southern Regional Council, a small Atlanta hotbed of what he now calls "premature integrationists," a moderate was "a white man without sidearms.
Calvin Trillin
#42. The benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.
George Washington
#43. There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.
Douglas Leone
#44. With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.
Washington Irving
#46. Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.
Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse
#47. A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day
#48. He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Samuel Butler
#50. Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#51. It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry ... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses, ... in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.
John Calvin
#52. Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
Truman Capote
#54. 'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans'
Ann Coulter
#55. In itself, no doubt, the natural and moderate satisfaction of the sexual instinct is a matter quite indifferent to morality. It is only in relation to something else that the satisfaction of a natural instinct can be said to be good or bad.
Aldous Huxley
#56. Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
Samuel Smiles
#57. This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.
Jim Cooper
#58. As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
Mark McKinnon
#59. The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
Gijs De Vries
#60. Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals.
Roger Ross Williams
#61. Responsibility has already changed the primary leaders of the Party very considerably," he wrote. "There is every evidence that they are becoming constantly more moderate.
Erik Larson
#62. I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.
Augusten Burroughs
#63. We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists.
Ted Cruz
#64. Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#65. Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Alexander Hamilton
#66. Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
Noam Chomsky
#67. He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
Benjamin Whichcote
#68. I need to cool off, I tell him, trying to moderate my voice. I'll be back to shave your head while you're sleeping.
Tahereh Mafi
#69. Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
Donald Rumsfeld
#70. The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
Meriwether Lewis
#71. Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.
William Greider
#72. I might have been asked to moderate my attitude a time or two. But really, life was too short to take shit. Let people walk all over you and you got what you deserved. I'd learned that the hard way.
Kylie Scott
#73. Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#74. What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.
Joseph Hume
#75. The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and mystical Islam.
Walter Kasper
#76. Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
K. A. Paul
#77. Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.
Garrison Keillor
#78. I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.
Rose McGowan
#79. Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term.
John H. Sununu
#80. Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
John Podhoretz
#81. In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
Livy
#82. I think that really, when we look at this whole process, we can come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat, that fundamentally all Democrats are Democrats.
Dick Morris
#83. In my book, everything considered immoral, foolish and unhealthy is fine in moderate measurements.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#85. If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
B.C. Forbes
#86. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Abraham Lincoln
#87. Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.
Travis Bradberry
#88. up to five hundred genes change their output when a person makes positive lifestyle changes, such as improved diet, moderate exercise, meditation, and stress management.
Deepak Chopra
#89. The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
Walter Savage Landor
#90. As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
Alexander Hamilton
#91. As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior
Albert Bandura
#92. There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are apt to hurry both into fever.
Charlotte Bronte
#93. Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Sherwood Boehlert
#94. It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.
Tipper Gore
#95. Fiscally I'm very conservative ... others say that I'm socially moderate.
Brian Sandoval
#96. There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.
Imran Khan
#97. As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
Barton Gellman
#98. Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
Aristotle.
#99. To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved ... that day, you die as a writer.
Dwight V. Swain
#100. In spite of all my efforts to create a neat, tidy, obedient, moderate, unexceptional persona, I was simply
too weird for them; until that is, my first female tutor was hired.
Salman Rushdie
