Extremes Quotes · Page 13

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

— Elliott Abrams

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

— Thom Tillis

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to…

— Ellen Barkin

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

— Charlie Kaufman

In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

— Anonymous

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

What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple…

— Van Morrison

The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians…

— Michael Badnarik

Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge…

— Amy Waldman

I want to do an 'Extreme Makeover' show. You know that MTV show 'I Want To Have A Famous Face'? Well, I…

— Pauly Shore

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate…

— Alexander Hamilton

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well…

— Dennis Ritchie

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to…

— Thomas Sankara

I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest,…

— Noam Chomsky

Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All…

— Gino Severini

We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example,…

— Theodore Dreiser

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite…

— Benjamin Zablocki

We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then…

— Brian Eno

Hey, have you ever heard of the Alchemists? " "Sure, " he said. "Of course you have. " "Why? Did you run…

— Richelle Mead

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

— Nuno Bettencourt

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

— Taylor Schilling

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

— Tariq Ali

The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.

— Bill Johnson

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

— Anonymous

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

— Antoine Rivarol

I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking.

— Dalai Lama

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

— Carrie Fisher

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

— Alexander Pope

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

— Mark Ruffalo

“There wasn't an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I'd die at them too.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

— Hans Arp

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

— Rufus Wainwright

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

— Moby