Extremes Quotes · Page 8

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

— Horace

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

— Gary Cherone

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

— Ambrose Bierce

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

— Pierre Corneille

Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

— Bill Nighy

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of…

— Ani DiFranco

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other…

— Simone Weil

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Modeling is about illusion. It's a fantasy world where models play various roles. By featuring extreme looks, magazines show women how to…

— Cindy Crawford

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table…

— Christopher Meloni

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries…

— William Davis

Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news…

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam.…

— Elie Wiesel

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But…

— Gabriel Byrne

If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in…

— Robert Stack

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.…

— Michael Sheen

It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth…

— Hannah Arendt

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of…

— Terence McKenna

Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home…

— Ruth Wisse

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is…

— Criss Jami

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

— Anthony Burgess

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

— Steven Rattner

I'm very aware of the extremes within me. The caring and the anger.

— Teddy Atlas

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life…

— Ai Weiwei

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have…

— Suzanne Vega

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

— Anonymous

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

— E. J. Gold

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme…

— John Muir

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one…

— Trent Reznor

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

— Linda Barnes

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility

— Richard Branson

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

— Frans de Waal

Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

— Joseph J. Romm