Extremes Quotes · Page 21

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

— Vincent de Paul

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

— Francis Chan

“Taken to extremes even the best human qualities would go sour.”

— Veronica Roth

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

— Claire McCaskill

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

— Honore de Balzac

The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks.

— Rush Limbaugh

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

— Christina Aguilera

I'm much more interested in shows that maybe not everybody loves, but a lot of people REALLY love. That's how I am…

— Felicia Day

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard…

— Sharon Olds

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United…

— James A. Michener

My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the…

— Arthur Koestler

I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started…

— Taraka Larson

It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more…

— Jerry Taylor

Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self…

— Yang Gui-ja

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of…

— Jeffrey Sachs

I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In the inheritance, I seek to dramatically distinguish between genuine, authentic Christianity on the one hand, and counterfeit, alternative spirituality on the…

— Brian Williams

When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes…

— Simone Weil

Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon,…

— Nirmala Srivastava

The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests…

— Stephen Jay Gould

As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult…

— Henry Fielding

The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a…

— Milton Friedman

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

— Aphra Behn

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

— Michel Foucault

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go

— Jens Lehmann

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

— Hannah Arendt

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

— Herbert Croly

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to…

— Robert Morgan

I think the extremes are something that's really interesting to see coalesce in movies.

— John Waters

I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.

— Gisele Bundchen

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

— Stephenie Meyer

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence…

— Mark Van Doren

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

— Ally Carter

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

— James C. Collins

When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.

— Thomas Piketty

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

— Anonymous

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun…

— Rosie O'Donnell