Extremes Quotes · Page 18

In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

— Anonymous

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

— Charlie Kaufman

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

— Henry David Thoreau

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

— Thom Tillis

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to…

— Ellen Barkin

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

— Elliott Abrams

Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational…

— Eric Abetz

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and…

— Amanda Ripley

The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an…

— Hector Berlioz

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming…

— Alan Bullock

Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites…

— Anne Tyler

Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and…

— Niecy Nash

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

— Laura Marling

I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate…

— Emma Forrest

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels…

— Leonard Peltier

We've had distressed edges. We've had culottes. We've had high waisted jeans, we've seen the heralding of the new bootcut back again.…

— Alexa Chung

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen…

— Bruce Springsteen

I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and…

— Li Cunxin

It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the…

— Noreena Hertz

The idea of the Overton Window is that there's a fairly narrow window of proposals in any particular policy area that people…

— Rachel Maddow

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

— Pearl S. Buck

I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies.

— Niki Taylor

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

— Anthony Geary

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

— Don Baylor

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

— Laozi

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

— Kofi Annan

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

— Bear Grylls

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

— Eric Ries

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

— Rush Limbaugh

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

— Koren Zailckas

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

— Rihanna

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

— John Updike

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

— Jan Egeland

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.

— Missi Pyle