Extremes Quotes · Page 14

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,

— John F. Kerry

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

— Catherine Marshall

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

— Hugh Evans

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

— Danny Boyle

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

— Leigh Brackett

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

— Jamie Oliver

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

— Moliere

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

— Hilary Mantel

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the…

— Lea Thompson

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening,…

— Brad Pitt

Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods,…

— Alice James

I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going…

— William J. Clinton

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that…

— Hari Kunzru

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week…

— Steven Spielberg

And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others…

— Jonathan Haidt

Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more…

— Michio Kaku

My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward…

— Dinaw Mengestu

The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old…

— Vita Sackville-West

We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of…

— Michael Ventura

I'm all for women who get plastic surgery, because plastic surgery allows you to make your outer appearance resemble your inner appearance…

— Daniel Tosh

The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms:…

— Che Guevara

I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard…

— Salman Rushdie

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

— David Batstone

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

— Charles Koch

“All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.”

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Karl Donitz

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

— Alison Sweeney

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

— Richard Burr

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

— Philip Sidney

I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

— Michael Rooker

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

— Melanie Klein

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

— Carl Sagan

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.

— John Waters

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

— John Ford

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

— Benjamin Franklin