Extremes Quotes · Page 9

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

— Melissa McCarthy

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

— Sammy Hagar

Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty.

— Julian Castro

Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

— Kreesha Turner

I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.

— Rob Zombie

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

— Virginia Woolf

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

— Shia LaBeouf

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

— Dodie Smith

Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods,…

— Alice James

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of…

— Laura Hillenbrand

We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going…

— William J. Clinton

I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that…

— Hari Kunzru

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing…

— Lysander Spooner

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week…

— Steven Spielberg

'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?…

— Viggo Mortensen

Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach…

— Timothy Keller

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

The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.…

— Isaiah Berlin

By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below).…

— Robert Barron

A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video…

— Lady Gaga

Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this…

— Sayed Kashua

The media is not about the arena of ideas. The media is not about persuading. The media is about overcoming the will…

— Rush Limbaugh

My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward…

— Dinaw Mengestu

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

— Wallace Stevens

The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.

— Bill Johnson

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

— Antoine Rivarol

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

— Anonymous

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

— Carrie Fisher

I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking.

— Dalai Lama

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to…

— Ellen Barkin

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

— Thom Tillis

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

— Charlie Kaufman

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

— Taylor Schilling

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

— Tariq Ali

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

— Nuno Bettencourt

In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

— Anonymous

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

— Pearl S. Buck