Extremes Quotes · Page 19

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

— Steve Saint

“It’s not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.”

— Susan Juby

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is…

— Kellan Lutz

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

— Simone Weil

“[...] extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality”

— Marilyn Manson

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,

— Jackson Katz

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

— Georgia Harkness

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the…

— Sinead O'Connor

The nurturing flow of life, extreme intelligence, beauty, and perfect harmony are active in every one of us. Yoga was developed in…

— Mark Whitwell

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

— Plato

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my…

— Deb Caletti

I got into the situation where I was extreme right. It turned out that my mother is Jewish, my grandmother is Jewish.…

— Csanad Szegedi

If there's anyone out there who has taken extreme to a new level, its Joe De Sena - in adventure racing, in…

— Robyn Benincasa

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like…

— Kathryn Minshew

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons…

— Maya Angelou

Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to…

— Florence Welch

What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled…

— Rodney Clapp

Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move…

— Nathan Myhrvold

I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being…

— Rebecca West

Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in…

— Charlie Munger

People associate long hair with drug use. I wish people associated long hair with something other than drug use, like an extreme…

— Mitch Hedberg

If I freely may discover What should please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of…

— Ben Jonson

It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to…

— Gloria Steinem

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

— Wallace Stevens

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

— Dodie Smith

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

— Virginia Woolf

I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.

— Rob Zombie

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

— Shia LaBeouf

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

— Melissa McCarthy

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

— Sammy Hagar

Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

— Kreesha Turner

Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty.

— Julian Castro

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

— Andrew Scott

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

— Takeru Kobayashi

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

— Essence Atkins

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

— Steve Toltz