Extremes Quotes · Page 20

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate…

— John Avlon

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

— Oliver Stone

Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.

— Janet Mock

There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.

— Warren Miller

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

— Joel Stein

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

— Jean Paul

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

— Peter Thiel

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme…

— John Muir

I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that…

— Serinda Swan

Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so…

— Haskell Wexler

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those…

— Kirstie Alley

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I…

— David Guetta

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you…

— Andrew Lo

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just…

— Shannon Miller

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic…

— Richard Courant

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line.…

— Louise Bourgeois

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a…

— Dietrich Mateschitz

A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in…

— John Tomac

The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation…

— Adyashanti

If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred…

— William Johnson Sollas

The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world…

— Yves Klein

I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an…

— Jacques Ellul

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily…

— Arnold Bennett

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

— E. J. Gold

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

— Anonymous

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

— Evan Glodell

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

— Marcus Aurelius

Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

— Joseph J. Romm

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

— Frans de Waal

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility

— Richard Branson

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

— Linda Barnes

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one…

— Trent Reznor

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

— Bill Nighy

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

— Pierre Corneille

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

— Ambrose Bierce

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa