Extremes Quotes · Page 16

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

— Madeleine L'Engle

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

— Tammy Bruce

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as…

— Kiran Desai

I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.

— Emmanuel Macron

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.

— DJ Shadow

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

— John Updike

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal…

— Harold H. Greene

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will…

— John Calvin

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and…

— Daniel Kahneman

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just…

— Augusten Burroughs

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so…

— Anthony Standen

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe,…

— John Ensign

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very…

— Virginia Woolf

I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though…

— Tom Jaine

In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

I totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I'll run a couple…

— Megan Hilty

Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor…

— Khaled Hosseini

In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and…

— Barack Obama

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without…

— Orison Swett Marden

Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion,…

— Hugh Kingsmill

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

— Carl Rogers

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

— John Pilger

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

— Martin Freeman

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

— Bill Gates

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

— Walter Kirn

“It’s not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.”

— Susan Juby

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is…

— Kellan Lutz

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

— Simone Weil

“[...] extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality”

— Marilyn Manson

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,

— Jackson Katz

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the…

— Sinead O'Connor

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

— Georgia Harkness

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

— Soren Kierkegaard

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

— William Saroyan

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

— Friedrich Nietzsche