Extremes Quotes · Page 10

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

— David Batstone

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.”

— Virginia Woolf

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and…

— Karl Donitz

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

— Alison Sweeney

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

— Richard Burr

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

— Philip Sidney

I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

— Michael Rooker

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme…

— Rahm Emanuel

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried…

— Jane Mayer

The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and…

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with…

— Chris Cornell

As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods…

— James Hansen

I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the…

— Patrick Leahy

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence,…

— Henry Lawson

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some…

— Winston Churchill

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.…

— Carl Sagan

The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I have said the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. But I think if we're ever going to really tackle the problems…

— Hillary Clinton

With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor…

— John Smith

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military…

— George P. Shultz

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a…

— Ehud Olmert

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so…

— William Hazlitt

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed…

— Robert Zemeckis

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

— Melanie Klein

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

— Carl Sagan

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.

— John Waters

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

— Alexander Pope

“There wasn't an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I'd die at them too.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

— Mark Ruffalo

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

— Hans Arp

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

— Rufus Wainwright

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,

— John F. Kerry

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

— Moby

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

— Hugh Evans

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

— Danny Boyle

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

— Catherine Marshall

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

— Leigh Brackett