Extremes Quotes · Page 18

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

— Madeleine L'Engle

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

— Michael Sheen

Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

— Susane Colasanti

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the…

— William James

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

— Jonathan Haidt

Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.

— Taraka Larson

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

— Carl Rogers

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

— John Pilger

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived…

— Anthony Burgess

Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries - seems to have swallowed…

— Melanie Phillips

The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a…

— Mike Rowe

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little…

— Francoise Sagan

At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes,…

— Frederick Lenz

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to…

— George Berkeley

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my…

— Zainab Salbi

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration…

— Sally Pearson

As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers…

— Juan Williams

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat…

— John Pilger

On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people…

— Noam Chomsky

I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these…

— Porochista Khakpour

The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural…

— Noam Chomsky

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…

— Thomas Jefferson

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

— Bill Gates

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

— Martin Freeman

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

— Walter Kirn

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as…

— Kiran Desai

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

— Tammy Bruce

I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.

— Emmanuel Macron

I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.

— DJ Shadow

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

— John Updike

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

— Soren Kierkegaard

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

— William Saroyan

I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

— Mariah Carey

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

— Friedrich Nietzsche