Extremes Quotes · Page 20

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

— Austin Kleon

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

— Vince Vaughn

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

— Rashid Khalidi

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

— Rand Beers

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

— Joel Stein

There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.

— Warren Miller

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not…

— Aristotle

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once…

— Jim Carrey

While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs…

— Edward Davey

One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think…

— Martin Fowler

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result,…

— Nouriel Roubini

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to…

— Mark Twain

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and…

— Albert Camus

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay…

— Henri

I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he…

— Frances Osborne

I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think…

— John Amaechi

When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days,…

— Csanad Szegedi

Just as outright euphoria is often a sign of a market top, fear is for sure a sign of a market bottom.…

— Michael Steinhardt

If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone…

— Kelvin Ogilvie

At issue here is a basic law which enables the Supreme Court to quash laws in extreme cases. Up until now, this…

— Ayelet Shaked

Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should…

— Van Jones

I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort…

— William Monahan

Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.

— Janet Mock

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

— Oliver Stone

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

— Peter Thiel

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

— Jean Paul

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

— Jean Racine

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

— Howard Zinn

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

— John Frusciante

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate…

— John Avlon

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

— Jessie Reyez

I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'

— Mike Ness

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's…

— Swizz Beatz

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

— Joe Biden

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

— Gary L. Francione

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of…

— Anthony Storr

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg