Extremes Quotes · Page 2

Who can be patient in extremes?

— William Shakespeare

I'm a child of extremes.

— Jessie Reyez

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

— Dave Chappelle

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

— Margaret of Valois

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

— Fred Vargas

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

— Pierre Corneille

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

— Vanilla Ice

“Everything is good in moderation. Even moderation.”

— Iveta Cherneva

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

— Anonymous

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

— Boyd Holbrook

Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.

— Janet Mock

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

— Oliver Stone

There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.

— Warren Miller

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

— Joel Stein

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

— Jean Paul

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

— Peter Thiel

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

— Rashid Khalidi

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

— Rand Beers

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid…

— Lee Iacocca

I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around…

— Steve Martin

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find…

— Peter McWilliams

Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal…

— Eckhart Tolle

I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a…

— L'Wren Scott

At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities…

— Robert D Bullard

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give…

— Albert Einstein

Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I…

— George Washington

The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified…

— Francis Collins

When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered…

— Nicholson Baker

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by…

— Brian Greene

Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields…

— Geoff Mulgan

I don't do very well with extremes of any kind - extreme diets, extreme fitness - so moderation makes a lot of…

— Kimberly Williams-Paisley

If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more…

— Alber Elbaz

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I…

— Quentin Crisp

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

— Anonymous

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

— David Bowie

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

— James Sheridan Knowles

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

— Jon Franklin

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

— Anonymous

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

— Georges Bataille