Extremes Quotes · Page 19

“You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities.”

— Richard Russo

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from…

— Blaise Pascal

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

— Swami Vivekananda

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

— Joseph Stalin

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

— Susan Abulhawa

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

— Stephen Fry

Recommend me to the Lord and to the Virgin Mother because I am in extreme need of their help.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate…

— Joan Didion

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and…

— Rush Limbaugh

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions…

— Benjamin Tucker

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has…

— Noam Chomsky

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking…

— Cass Sunstein

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was…

— John Buford

If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually…

— Ali Sina

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that…

— Pete Wentz

Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our…

— Piero Ferrucci

How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down. Breath a whisper, she came closer and…

— Nalini Singh

You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer… People's…

— Kate Bush

Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar…

— Andrew Nikiforuk

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the…

— Bono

If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are…

— Swami Vivekananda

Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.

— Sharif Abdullah

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

— Christian Lacroix

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

— Rob Zombie

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

— Roger Moore

Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

— Hudson Taylor

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

— David Levithan

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

— Richard Preston

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the…

— John Lydon

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

— John Maynard Keynes

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

— George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

— Tom Freston

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

— Danny Boyle

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

— Lucy Walker

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

— Jonathan Swift

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

— Nicole Kidman