Extremes Quotes · Page 15

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

— Eric Ries

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle…

— Charles Bukowski

“Taken to extremes even the best human qualities would go sour.”

— Veronica Roth

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

— Claire McCaskill

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

— Honore de Balzac

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

— Christina Aguilera

The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks.

— Rush Limbaugh

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

— Bear Grylls

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this…

— Geert Wilders

People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at…

— Andrew Zimbalist

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich…

— Arlene J. Chai

“Riot was her element, as surely as this dark room almost creeping with amassed objects. The street and the hothouse; in V.…

— Thomas Pynchon

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was…

— Helmut Newton

Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is…

— Amy Poehler

To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could…

— Joel-Peter Witkin

I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've…

— Lilly Singh

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's…

— Roger Moore

Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the…

— Gillian Anderson

One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the…

— Jennifer Garner

“Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come…

— Christine Pelosi

It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your…

— Kurt Warner

Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of…

— John Stott

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.

— Michael Kors

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

— Vincent de Paul

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

— Francis Chan

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to…

— Robert Morgan

I think the extremes are something that's really interesting to see coalesce in movies.

— John Waters

I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.

— Gisele Bundchen

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence…

— Mark Van Doren

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

— Stephenie Meyer

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

— Ally Carter

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

— Anonymous

When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.

— Thomas Piketty

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

— James C. Collins

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

— Aphra Behn

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

— Michel Foucault