Extremes Quotes · Page 12

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

— John Frusciante

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

— John Dryden

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

— Austin Kleon

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

— Andrew Niccol

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

— Vince Vaughn

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

— John Rawls

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you…

— Lawrence Lessig

It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins…

— Jodi Picoult

President Trump is boldly moving in what I would call rather extreme directions. And that is going to set into motion a…

— Jerry Brown

Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if…

— Edward Albee

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after…

— May Sarton

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point…

— Marquis de Sade

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the…

— Douglas Booth

Baby, I don’t feel pain. Ever. (Talon) Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine) It’s a waste of time and energy. It also…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare…

— Eminem

Once the settlement is completed, the credit card company will report it to the credit bureaus, which will then make a notation…

— Jean Chatzky

We have sacrificed and we have endured extreme hardship, but we have maintained the key goal - we have denied the enemy…

— Ashraf Ghani

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

'In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for…

— Pete Docter

I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that…

— Maya Angelou

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity,…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

— Rashid Khalidi

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

— Rand Beers

Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.

— Gail Dines

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

— Truman Capote

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

— Antonio Porchia

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

— Blaise Pascal

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

— Charles Spurgeon

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

— Chogyam Trungpa

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

— Anonymous

Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.

— Boaz Lavie

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

— Jeremy London

It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.

— Martin Sorrell

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

— Criss Jami

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

— Dalai Lama

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

— Kelly Reilly