Extremes Quotes · Page 17

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

— Mariah Carey

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

— Steve Saint

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

— Takeru Kobayashi

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

— Andrew Scott

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

— Wallace Stevens

When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme…

— Dale Jamieson

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes…

— John Krasinski

Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism, Wahhabi Islam is extreme and violent. These are the people that execute gays. These are the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not…

— Arthur Eddington

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than…

— Fred Melamed

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in…

— Henry David Thoreau

Problems between countries always exist, especially between such big countries as Russia and the United States. There have always been some issues,…

— Vladimir Putin

I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness.…

— Tavares Strachan

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades…

— David Suzuki

Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still…

— Leonard Peltier

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to…

— Sebastian Horsley

The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat of being…

— Patrick McGorry

I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of…

— Eugene Fama

The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like…

— Elizabeth Neel

Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we're not. For me, it is really…

— Bjork

Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme…

— Sandra Bullock

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

— Dodie Smith

I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.

— Rob Zombie

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

— Virginia Woolf

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

— Shia LaBeouf

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

— Sammy Hagar

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

— Melissa McCarthy

Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

— Kreesha Turner

Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty.

— Julian Castro

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

— Carrie Fisher

I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking.

— Dalai Lama

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

— Anonymous

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

— Antoine Rivarol

The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.

— Bill Johnson

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

— Nuno Bettencourt

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

— Taylor Schilling

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

— Tariq Ali