Extremes Quotes · Page 17

Why are you helping me? (Fury) I don’t know. Apparently I’m having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

— Jennifer Granholm

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

— Miguel

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

— Naomi Klein

I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

— Susanne Wuest

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

— Joseph Conrad

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

— Simone Weil

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the…

— Barack Obama

By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

— Charles Krauthammer

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial,…

— Sam Keen

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

— Saul Friedlander

A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain…

— Eckhart Tolle

It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and…

— David O. Russell

The only reason we try to have no thought is to understand the universe, but how often do you want to understand…

— Henry Chang

A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video…

— Lady Gaga

By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below).…

— Robert Barron

Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this…

— Sayed Kashua

The media is not about the arena of ideas. The media is not about persuading. The media is about overcoming the will…

— Rush Limbaugh

On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49…

— Billy Campbell

The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct…

— Bruce Lee

Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those…

— Virginia Postrel

Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by…

— Howard Martin

Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

— Mariane Pearl

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

— Francois Fenelon

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

— Julien Temple

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

— Jean de la Bruyere

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

— Rick Riordan

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

— Dee Dee Ramone

I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

— Frederick Lenz

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

— Hippocrates

...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.

— Ben Aaronovitch

Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.

— Alfred Shrubb

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

— David Livermore