Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts. — Warren Miller Copy Share Image
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism, Wahhabi Islam is extreme and violent. These are the people that execute gays. These are the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme. — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding,… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort. — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image