Extremes Quotes · Page 7

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

— Virginia Woolf

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

— Dave Chappelle

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

— Berthe Morisot

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

— Cato the Younger

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

— Margaret of Valois

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

— Fred Vargas

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

— Pierre Corneille

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

— Grimes

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

— Yves Klein

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

— Susane Colasanti

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

— William James

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

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

— Michael Sheen

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme…

— C. S. Lewis

Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to…

— Martin Schulz

I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate…

— John Stuart Mill

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or…

— Beatrice Webb

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush…

— Rick Riordan

The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians…

— Michael Badnarik

Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to…

— George Eliot

Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and…

— John Waters

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that…

— Susan Orlean

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a…

— Dietrich Mateschitz

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line.…

— Louise Bourgeois

Americans need help understanding their world now more than ever. [TV] believes it's filled its obligation to the public because it's presented…

— Hillary Clinton

Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Jada Pinkett Smith

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

— John Updike

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

— DJ Shadow

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Kiran Desai

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

— Tammy Bruce