Extremes Quotes · Page 21

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

— Virginia Woolf

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

— Michael Sheen

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

— Jonathan Haidt

Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.

— Taraka Larson

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the…

— William James

Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

— Susane Colasanti

Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Jonathan Swift

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of…

— Atul Gawande

As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the…

— John Desmond Bernal

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery…

— Robert D. Arnott

The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal…

— Robert O. Mendelsohn

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

— William Shenstone

The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600…

— Charlie Munger

“But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to…

— Sue Augustine

It's all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I'll go to an extreme. I'll wear foundation, bright blue…

— Angelina Jolie

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the…

— Plato

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd…

— Kate Atkinson

She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such…

— Cassandra Clare

I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil…

— Bill Joy

I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence…

— Anonymous

Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will…

— Thomas Huxley

For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time,…

— Virginia Woolf

In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one…

— Anonymous

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

— Madeleine L'Engle

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

— Frederick Lenz

I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.

— Emmanuel Macron

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

— Tammy Bruce

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as…

— Kiran Desai

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

— John Updike

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.

— DJ Shadow

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

— Martin Freeman

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

— Bill Gates

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

— John Pilger

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

— Carl Rogers

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

— Walter Kirn

Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary…

— May Sarton