Extremes Quotes · Page 16

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

— Shawn Johnson

I think there needs to be extremes in fashion, and Pucci offers another choice.

— Matthew Williamson

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

— Leigh Hunt

“There is no in-between, just two extremes. That’s the land of noble obstacles.”

— Jon Acuff

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

— Bong Joon-ho

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

— Robert W. Service

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for…

— Noam Chomsky

Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their…

— William Hazlitt

It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John…

— Mohammad Khatami

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

— Gilles Deleuze

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

— Terry Pratchett

I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but…

— Ed Speleers

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead…

— Igor Stravinsky

The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would…

— Anonymous

But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot,…

— Milton Friedman

If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day…

— Deb Caletti

Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding…

— Vladimir Putin

The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as…

— Linda McQuaig

If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why…

— Lisa See

I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner…

— Maia Szalavitz

The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.…

— Isaiah Berlin

The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.

— Hans Asperger

The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful.

— Noam Chomsky

The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes.

— Carl Lentz

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

— Anonymous

I recently bought extreme chunky peanut butter. I opened it up.. .it was just peanuts. Wow that is extreme!

— Jim Gaffigan

“The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.”

— Charles Simeon

I like playing extremes. I don't really know how to not be a 10.

— Cole Escola

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

— Warren Buffett

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

— Tim Lebbon

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

— John Shirley

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

— Steven Hill

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life.

— Dani Shapiro

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

— Camille Flammarion

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

— Ben Elton