Extremes Quotes · Page 19

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

— Anonymous

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

— Chogyam Trungpa

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

— Charles Spurgeon

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

— Blaise Pascal

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

— Truman Capote

Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.

— Gail Dines

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

— Antonio Porchia

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

— Rand Beers

[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am…

— Gary Cherone

If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more…

— Paul Wolfowitz

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances…

— James Howard Kunstler

It goes to extremes - from people saying I'm the best of all-time to people saying, "I hate that white boy." Who…

— Riff Raff

If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them… Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People…

— Margery Wilson

My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere…

— Busta Rhymes

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them. I believe He wants…

— Francis Chan

Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most…

— Michael Hastings

I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that…

— Susan Orlean

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and…

— John Waters

Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at…

— Merlin Stone

Americans need help understanding their world now more than ever. [TV] believes it's filled its obligation to the public because it's presented…

— Hillary Clinton

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

— Rashid Khalidi

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

— John Rawls

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

— Vince Vaughn

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

— Austin Kleon

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

— Andrew Niccol

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

— John Dryden

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

— John Frusciante

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

— Howard Zinn

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

— Jean Racine

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's…

— Swizz Beatz

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'

— Mike Ness

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

— Jessie Reyez