Extremes Quotes · Page 9

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one…

— Trent Reznor

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

— Peter Ustinov

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

— Oliver Sacks

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

— Mark Manson

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

— Shane Claiborne

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

— Francis Picabia

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

— Claire McCaskill

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries…

— William Davis

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Modeling is about illusion. It's a fantasy world where models play various roles. By featuring extreme looks, magazines show women how to…

— Cindy Crawford

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table…

— Christopher Meloni

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other…

— Simone Weil

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of…

— Ani DiFranco

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time…

— Boaz Lavie

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also…

— Booboo Stewart

What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;…

— Annie Dillard

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of…

— Terence McKenna

Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth…

— Hannah Arendt

If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in…

— Robert Stack

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.…

— Michael Sheen

I was on Batman with "Superheavy" or "Zero Year" where there was a lot of fun and bombast, but it was also…

— Scott Snyder

I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the…

— Victor J. Stenger

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

— John Shirley

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

— James Dobson

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

— Marco Pierre White

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

— Panda Bear

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.

— John Ford

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

— Benjamin Franklin

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

— Julius Caesar

I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that.

— Sebastien Foucan

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

— Ezra Pound

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

— Alexander Pope

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

— James Patterson

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

— Edmund Burke

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

— Garry Kasparov

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

— Yael Naim

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

— Charles Koch