As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I think that extreme right wing views are not what the American people are looking for right now. They want to see… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff. Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth,… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days,… — Lucius Shepard Copy Share Image
Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It's true. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
When it comes to people who are saying really extreme things online, we have the tendency to think that they are just… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who… — Ian Barbour Copy Share Image
Humans remain entirely atmosphere dependent, so there is no choice but to respond to extreme climatic behaviour and its many effects. — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
We have an enormous support within the Dutch public. One million people voted for my party.If we would've been extreme, we would've… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may… — John Money Copy Share Image
NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It… — Alexander Trocchi Copy Share Image
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy.… — Martial Copy Share Image
It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image