Extremes Quotes · Page 10

“All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.”

— Virginia Woolf

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

— Charles Koch

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

— David Batstone

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.

— John Waters

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

— Carl Sagan

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

— Melanie Klein

I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

— Michael Rooker

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the…

— Patrick Leahy

As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods…

— James Hansen

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with…

— Chris Cornell

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried…

— Jane Mayer

The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and…

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme…

— Rahm Emanuel

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also…

— Booboo Stewart

If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a…

— Ehud Olmert

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so…

— William Hazlitt

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military…

— George P. Shultz

I have said the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. But I think if we're ever going to really tackle the problems…

— Hillary Clinton

With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor…

— John Smith

The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I was on Batman with "Superheavy" or "Zero Year" where there was a lot of fun and bombast, but it was also…

— Scott Snyder

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

— Philip Sidney

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

— Richard Burr

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

— Alison Sweeney

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

— Hugh Evans

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

— Danny Boyle

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

— Catherine Marshall

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,

— John F. Kerry

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

— Moby

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

— Rufus Wainwright

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

— Hans Arp

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There wasn't an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I'd die at them too.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

— Mark Ruffalo

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

— Alexander Pope

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge