Extremes Quotes · Page 18

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

— Kathryn Bigelow

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

— Maya Angelou

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of…

— Anthony Storr

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

— Gary L. Francione

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for…

— Lawrence Kasdan

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable…

— Frank Schatzing

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in…

— Eva Hesse

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and…

— Anonymous

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without…

— Moliere

I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know,…

— Emma Donoghue

In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black…

— Stan Smith

What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the…

— Kerry James Marshall

Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about…

— Csanad Szegedi

Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach…

— Timothy Keller

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You…

— Julian Barnes

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics…

— Gore Vidal

A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware…

— Rajneesh

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to…

— George Eliot

Some of the best trades come when everyone gets very panicky. The crowd can often act very stupidly in the markets. You…

— Linda Bradford Raschke

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

— Joe Biden

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

— Robert Ludlum

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and…

— Lena Headey

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

— Alfred Bester

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

— Clint Eastwood

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

— Erwin Rommel

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

— Dodie Smith

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

— Carlos Fuentes

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

— John Milton

There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

— Jonathan Swift

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

— Kelly Reilly

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

— Dalai Lama

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

— Criss Jami

Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.

— Boaz Lavie

It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.

— Martin Sorrell

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

— Jeremy London