Extremes Quotes · Page 21

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

— Maya Angelou

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

— Alfred Bester

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and…

— Lena Headey

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

— Robert Ludlum

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

— Anonymous

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

— Jeremy London

It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.

— Martin Sorrell

Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.

— Boaz Lavie

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet…

— Meghan O'Rourke

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a…

— Neil LaBute

If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time,…

— Giorgio Morandi

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are…

— Kenneth Branagh

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear…

— Wilhelm Reich

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

— Jurgen Habermas

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted…

— Jim Bunning

The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to…

— Emma Donoghue

Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for…

— Margaret Mead

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to…

— Robert Greene

I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job…

— Julien Temple

Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the…

— David Lammy

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind…

— Judith Ellen Foster

Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what…

— Milan Kundera

We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he…

— Christopher Hitchens

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

— Criss Jami

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

— Antonio Porchia

Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.

— Gail Dines

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

— Truman Capote

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

— Blaise Pascal

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

— Charles Spurgeon

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

— Chogyam Trungpa

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

— Dodie Smith

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

— Erwin Rommel

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

— Clint Eastwood

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

— Dalai Lama

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

— Kelly Reilly

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

— Jonathan Swift

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

— John Milton

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

— Carlos Fuentes

No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though…

— Andy Serkis