Extremes Quotes · Page 14

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

— Roger Moore

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

— Rob Zombie

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

— David Levithan

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

— Richard Preston

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

— John Maynard Keynes

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the…

— John Lydon

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

— Daniel N. Robinson

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple…

— Al Gore

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme…

— Louise Slaughter

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil…

— Paul Krugman

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe…

— Daniel Keys Moran

Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live…

— Vin Diesel

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . .…

— Plato

I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very…

— Milton Friedman

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist…

— Jean-Francois Cope

The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given…

— Robert Conquest

An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in…

— Edward Gibbon

As we have been continuously counseled for more than 60 years, let us have some food set aside that would sustain us…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor…

— William Shakespeare

One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in…

— Paula White

Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This…

— William Lane Craig

I'd like to put the record straight about that. I've been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of…

— Anna Friel

The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details…

— Eric Metaxas

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

— Walter Kaufmann

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

— Pierre Trudeau

Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.

— Ilona Andrews

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice…

— Samuel Butler

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

— Edward Gibbon

Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar

— Garrison Wynn

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

— Klemens von Metternich

Having - and keeping to - a regular exercise routine is crucial. And forget about those extreme diets - they aren't healthy.

— Lee Byung-hun

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the…

— Aristotle

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

— Freddie Mercury

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a…

— Tom Robbins

The fate of all extremes is such: men may be read, as well as books, too much.

— Alexander Pope Q

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

— Thomas Paine