I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There are certain aspects of me that can be bad-ass sometimes, but being able to push it to the extreme is something… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Cameron threw her hands up in frustration. “What is this so-called ‘look’?” Whatever it was, she was going to have to start… — Julie James Copy Share Image
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in… — Danny Silk Copy Share Image
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image