People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable! — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it… — George L. Carlson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible,… — Moliere Copy Share Image
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from… — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable… — Frank Schatzing Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Just as outright euphoria is often a sign of a market top, fear is for sure a sign of a market bottom.… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
