If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result,… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think… — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay… — Henri Copy Share Image
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Where have we come as a country, when loving the Constitution, being a patriot, loving Jesus is extremist? Let me tell you… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time,… — Giorgio Morandi Copy Share Image
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted… — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there… — Chris Lowell Copy Share Image
Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme… — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very… — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John… — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but… — Ed Speleers Copy Share Image
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable… — Frank Schatzing Copy Share Image
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The only reason we try to have no thought is to understand the universe, but how often do you want to understand… — Henry Chang Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll. — Saul Friedlander Copy Share Image
