Extremes Quotes · Page 11

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility

— Richard Branson

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

— Linda Barnes

Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

— Joseph J. Romm

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

— Frans de Waal

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

— Marcus Aurelius

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

— Evan Glodell

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

— Anonymous

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they…

— Oliver North

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not…

— Criss Jami

You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so…

— Brian Eno

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which…

— Mark Takano

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you…

— Jamie Hyneman

If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped…

— E. B. White

An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the…

— Derek R. Audette

The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power… That…

— Tom Coburn

I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around…

— Geraldine Lee Wei Ling

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be…

— Jon Krakauer

There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I…

— Nia Long

To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to…

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,…

— Eric Hoffer

I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city…

— John Waters

Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had…

— Jonathan Chait

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

— E. J. Gold

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme…

— John Muir

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

— Peter Thiel

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

— Jean Paul

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

— Joel Stein

There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.

— Warren Miller

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

— Oliver Stone

Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.

— Janet Mock

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

— Jessie Reyez

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate…

— John Avlon

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'

— Mike Ness

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's…

— Swizz Beatz

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

— Jean Racine

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

— Howard Zinn