Extremes Quotes · Page 9

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

— Marcus Aurelius

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

— Evan Glodell

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

— John Shirley

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

— Claire McCaskill

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

— Francis Picabia

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

— Mark Manson

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

— Shane Claiborne

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

— Oliver Sacks

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended…

— Karen Abbott

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy…

— Harriet Martineau

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop…

— Paul Wellstone

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or…

— Raymond Pettibon

Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered,…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education,…

— Helene D. Gayle

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence,…

— Henry Lawson

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some…

— Winston Churchill

What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;…

— Annie Dillard

The intrinsic social structure, the family structure and so forth, is certainly in a very bad state. And I think that this…

— Kenneth Arrow

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of…

— Phil Anselmo

I don't actually have cable. I watch TV, but only shows that I buy on DVD. As a result my TV rage…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate…

— Christopher Hitchens

The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now…

— George Will

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed…

— Robert Zemeckis

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it…

— Paul Valery

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

— Peter Ustinov

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

— Panda Bear

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

— Marco Pierre White

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

— James Dobson

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

— Julius Caesar

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

— Benjamin Franklin

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.

— John Ford

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

— Yael Naim

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

— Edmund Burke

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

— Garry Kasparov

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

— Alexander Pope

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

— James Patterson

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

— Ezra Pound

I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that.

— Sebastien Foucan

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and…

— Karl Donitz

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

— Robert Louis Stevenson