Extremes Quotes · Page 10

“you may as well push yourself right to the very extremes of your capabilities”

— Bob Geldof

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

— Abraham Cowley

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down…

— Alberto Giacometti

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

— Horace

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

— Billy Bob Thornton

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

— Gary Cherone

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

— Eric Maisel

Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety -…

— Arca

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to…

— John Stuart Mill

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise…

— James Madison

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme.…

— Al Michaels

Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do…

— Manny Pacquiao

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all,…

— Pink

… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies…

— Arundhati Roy

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in…

— Blaise Pascal

A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by…

— Richard Dawkins

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect…

— Anonymous

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea…

— Friedrich Schiller

You can see the cruelest part of the world, the cruelest part. But then on the other side, you see the most…

— Britney Spears

Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate…

— Maria W. Stewart

And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the…

— Terence McKenna

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

— Pamela Moore

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

— Michel de Montaigne

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

— Ray Davies

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

— Marco Pirroni

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

— Anthony Burgess

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

— Steven Rattner

I'm very aware of the extremes within me. The caring and the anger.

— Teddy Atlas

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life…

— Ai Weiwei

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have…

— Suzanne Vega

Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

— Pierre Corneille

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

— Ambrose Bierce

Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

— Bill Nighy

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one…

— Trent Reznor

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

— Jean de la Bruyere