Extremes Quotes · Page 14

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

— John Clare

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

— Malcolm Turnbull

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

— Emile Hirsch

Hey, I drank milk that was a DAY past its expiration date. Now THAT is extreme!

— Kurt Angle

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

— Simon Schama

Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

— Evan Rachel Wood

Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.

— Craig Rosebraugh

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is…

— Paul Davies

Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run…

— Eudora Welty

A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad…

— Seth Klarman

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies…

— Michel de Montaigne

I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was…

— Joan Didion

Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things…

— Courteney Cox

I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of…

— Frank Miller

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no…

— Anonymous

With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the…

— Jimmy Carter

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that…

— Benjamin Tucker

I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable,…

— Peter Hollingworth

We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather…

— Al Gore

Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish…

— Leon Trotsky

I always like to push the extremes of what anybody thinks St. Lucia is.

— St. Lucia

I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.

— Kellan Lutz

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.

— Keegan Connor Tracy

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

— Edmund Burke

Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.

— Gina Carano

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

— Paul Gauguin

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

— Richard Cecil

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

— Anonymous

We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they're not at a 10 for…

— Chris Sullivan

No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

— Juvenal

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

— Jimmy Carter

Orissa is cursed by the two tragic extremes of drought and famine.

— Naveen Patnaik

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

— Jeffrey Sachs

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an…

— Nicholas Royle

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

— Alexander Pope

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

— William Shakespeare