Extremes Quotes · Page 17

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

— Elliott Abrams

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

— Pearl S. Buck

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.

— Missi Pyle

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

— Kofi Annan

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

— Eric Ries

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

— Bear Grylls

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

— Rush Limbaugh

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone…

— Thomas Merton

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,…

— Adrienne Rich

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll…

— Emma Donoghue

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.

— Dalai Lama

I do think there are very few extreme right-wing gay Republicans. Although it depends how you define "extreme right-wing." They're making a…

— Kirby Dick

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or…

— Jean Baudrillard

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to…

— Robert Byrd

What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was…

— David Duke

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no…

— Ina Garten

You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg…

— Marie Lu

I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory…

— Charlie Munger

Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies…

— Sarah Palin

The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved…

— Mae Whitman

Everybody has got good and evil in them. I’d like to be 100% evil, but I can’t. I’m too easy-going sometimes. Then…

— Richard Ramirez

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly…

— Francis Bacon

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

— Koren Zailckas

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

— Jan Egeland

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

— John Updike

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

— Rihanna

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

— Joseph Stalin

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

— Swami Vivekananda

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

— Susan Abulhawa

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

— Stephen Fry

Recommend me to the Lord and to the Virgin Mother because I am in extreme need of their help.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.

— Sharif Abdullah

“You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities.”

— Richard Russo

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from…

— Blaise Pascal

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

— Jonathan Swift

Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

— Gautama Buddha

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

— Frederick Lenz