The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up… — Caldwell Esselstyn Copy Share Image
the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and… — Rory Miller Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute… — Mark Shurtleff Copy Share Image
Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I… — Andrea Modica Copy Share Image
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially… — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
L.A. gives me a lot. L.A. is a city of extremes. People come here from all over the world that have these,… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once… — Felix Baumgartner Copy Share Image
When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims.… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
There have been so many interpretations of both Batman and the Joker in the comic books themselves over the decades, from one… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet,… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war to me, if… — Pete Stark Copy Share Image
I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
I've always been the type of person - you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I'm not like, 'Oh,… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
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