Extremes Quotes · Page 11

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

— Hilary Mantel

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

— Moliere

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

— Jamie Oliver

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

— Leigh Brackett

Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.

— Alfred Shrubb

...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.

— Ben Aaronovitch

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

— Hippocrates

I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

— Frederick Lenz

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time…

— Boaz Lavie

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,

— Maurice Herzog

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true…

— Noam Chomsky

He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the…

— Gouverneur Morris

Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible…

— George Mason

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and…

— Pam Houston

I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of…

— Frederick Lenz

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows…

— Francois Fenelon

I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the…

— Victor J. Stenger

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.…

— Carl Sagan

There are certain aspects of me that can be bad-ass sometimes, but being able to push it to the extreme is something…

— Tinsel Korey

I think it's just been a core part of the Cuban revolution to have a very high level of internationalism. I mean,…

— Noam Chomsky

By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that…

— Bill Gates

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of…

— David Foster Wallace

At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate…

— Melissa Febos

We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion.…

— Michael Crichton

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

— Dee Dee Ramone

Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

— Rick Riordan

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

— David Livermore

Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

— Mariane Pearl

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

— Simone Weil

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

— Joseph Conrad

I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

— Susanne Wuest

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

— Naomi Klein