Extremes Quotes · Page 15

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

— E. O. Wilson

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

— Plato

I wouldn't take up arms. I think that might be a little extreme.

— Hillary Clinton

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

— William Shakespeare

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

— Jean Racine

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

— Grimes

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

— Yves Klein

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry…

— Saadi

Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that…

— Lonnie Dupre

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme…

— Patricia Wentworth

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right,…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels…

— Andrew Evans

If we can live and prosper without killing, why would we not do so? I do not see veganism as 'extreme' in…

— Gary L. Francione

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme…

— Frank Stella

Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost…

— Susan Cheever

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute…

— Anonymous

I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union…

— Alexander Hamilton

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I…

— Anonymous

Babies have not yet chunked anything. They aren't doing any high level thinking. All they're doing is sucking in all the data…

— Kevin Maney

Some have a difficult time with feminism. 'Why not a human liberation movement?' they say. The answer is that the power differences…

— Loraine Hutchins

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and…

— Joe Rogan

Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

— Bill Bailey

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

— Walter Bonatti

Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

— Rocko

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

— Eugene Ionesco

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella

— Stephenie Meyer

When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme.

— Travis Rice

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

— Michael Sheen

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the…

— William James

Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

— Susane Colasanti

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

— Jonathan Haidt

Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.

— Taraka Larson

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

— Jonathan Swift

Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

— Gautama Buddha

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

— Frederick Lenz