We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
I always tend to remember the funny moments. When I lost my shoe (even though it was funny) there was something motivating… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because… — Jaz Coleman Copy Share Image
In the inheritance, I seek to dramatically distinguish between genuine, authentic Christianity on the one hand, and counterfeit, alternative spirituality on the… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down. Breath a whisper, she came closer and… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it… — George L. Carlson Copy Share Image
We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early,… — Keith Brantly Copy Share Image
It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent,… — Noel Fisher Copy Share Image
One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
The idea of the Overton Window is that there's a fairly narrow window of proposals in any particular policy area that people… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer… People's… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar… — Andrew Nikiforuk Copy Share Image
If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the… — Bono Copy Share Image
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
