Extremes Quotes · Page 21

Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have…

— Suzanne Vega

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life…

— Ai Weiwei

I'm very aware of the extremes within me. The caring and the anger.

— Teddy Atlas

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

— Steven Rattner

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

— Anthony Burgess

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

— Ray Davies

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

— Marco Pirroni

I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week,…

— Fred Couples

When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thirteen.' I just really…

— Leven Rambin

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some…

— Kerry James Marshall

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes…

— Anonymous

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but…

— Calvin Trillin

It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You…

— Zadie Smith

It seems to me that everybody who's a success has made a decision to put themselves in a situation that eats away…

— Peter Stone

I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the…

— Elizabeth Strout

I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do…

— George Saunders

If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks,…

— Dan Pallotta

There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned…

— Terence McKenna

I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to…

— Jack Kerouac

For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

When Ben Carson said that he would remove all federal funding for universities that had 'extreme political bias.' Who would decide what…

— Jay Roach

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of…

— Victor Hugo

[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of…

— Gouverneur Morris

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

— Pamela Moore

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

— Michel de Montaigne

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

— Eric Maisel

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

— Billy Bob Thornton

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

— Gary Cherone

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

— Horace

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down…

— Alberto Giacometti

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

— Abraham Cowley

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

— Jeremy Grantham

“you may as well push yourself right to the very extremes of your capabilities”

— Bob Geldof

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

— Steven Strogatz

“Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.”

— Aldous Huxley

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

— Olafur Eliasson

And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black…

— Malcolm X