Extremes Quotes · Page 12

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

— Miguel

Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

— Julien Temple

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

— Francois Fenelon

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

— Steven Hill

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

— Johann Gottfried Herder

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

— John Shirley

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit,…

— Franz Kafka

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's…

— Scott McClanahan

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist…

— Kevin Gates

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from…

— Socrates

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you…

— Matt Damon

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects…

— Gary Cherone

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and…

— Doris Brown Heritage

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having…

— Charles Darwin

The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity,…

— Philippa Perry

The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow…

— Bill W

Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a…

— Annie Dillard

Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views…

— Cass Sunstein

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're…

— Veronica Roth

I've obviously come from a health background. I was a doctor before I became a pollie and one of the things I'd…

— Richard Di Natale

If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be…

— Oliver Lodge

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

— Tim Lebbon

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

— Jennifer Granholm

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Why are you helping me? (Fury) I don’t know. Apparently I’m having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

— Ben Elton

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

— Camille Flammarion

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life.

— Dani Shapiro

“There is no in-between, just two extremes. That’s the land of noble obstacles.”

— Jon Acuff

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

— Bong Joon-ho

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

— Leigh Hunt

I think there needs to be extremes in fashion, and Pucci offers another choice.

— Matthew Williamson

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

— Shawn Johnson

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“The wildest thing in life is your own mind and the extremes it can take you.”

— Gillian Duce

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

— Michael Savage