Extremes Quotes · Page 69

I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things…

— Courteney Cox

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance…

— Elinor Glyn

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither…

— Anonymous

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ...…

— Charles Darwin

You're born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you're a man or a woman. It just depends…

— RuPaul

One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in…

— Paula White

I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or…

— Jesse Michaels

We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a…

— Bryan Stevenson

What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the…

— Kerry James Marshall

I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started…

— Taraka Larson

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's…

— Roger Moore

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your…

— Julian Barnes

I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking.

— Dana Gould

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

— Susanne Wuest

I remember seeing Extreme play with [Debra] Winger and Cinderella. Gary Cherone was wearing purple velvet overalls with no shirt and saddle…

— Patrick Wilson

Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their…

— Alexander Hamilton

We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists…

— River Phoenix

Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar

— Garrison Wynn

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle…

— Charles Bukowski

A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we…

— John Cage