Extremes Quotes · Page 8

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

— Anonymous

“The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.”

— Charles Simeon

I recently bought extreme chunky peanut butter. I opened it up.. .it was just peanuts. Wow that is extreme!

— Jim Gaffigan

I like playing extremes. I don't really know how to not be a 10.

— Cole Escola

The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes.

— Carl Lentz

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people…

— Tupac Shakur

Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or…

— Jennifer Hudson

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place…

— John Quincy Adams

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme,…

— Salman Rushdie

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it…

— John Legend

One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really…

— Juan Enriquez

And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the…

— Terence McKenna

I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around…

— Geraldine Lee Wei Ling

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be…

— Jon Krakauer

Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that…

— Richard Dawkins

The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the…

— Fritjof Capra

A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity…

— Maximus the Confessor

If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish…

— Du Mu

One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes…

— Dorian Yates

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

— Michael Savage

“The wildest thing in life is your own mind and the extremes it can take you.”

— Gillian Duce

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

— Bertrand Russell

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

— Margaret Walker

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

— Thomas Kyd

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

— Leigh Hunt

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

— Bong Joon-ho

“There is no in-between, just two extremes. That’s the land of noble obstacles.”

— Jon Acuff

I think there needs to be extremes in fashion, and Pucci offers another choice.

— Matthew Williamson

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

— Shawn Johnson

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

— David Livermore

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

— Dee Dee Ramone