Extremes Quotes · Page 9

Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

— Rick Riordan

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

— Jean de la Bruyere

...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.

— Ben Aaronovitch

Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.

— Alfred Shrubb

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

— Hippocrates

Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells,…

— Emily Yoffe

Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost…

— Susan Cheever

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal…

— Harold H. Greene

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will…

— John Calvin

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and…

— Daniel Kahneman

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry…

— Saadi

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things…

— Courteney Cox

Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that…

— Lonnie Dupre

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide…

— Juan Williams

'In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for…

— Pete Docter

I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that…

— Maya Angelou

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity,…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior…

— Daniel Kahneman

Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and…

— Carl Rogers

I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable,…

— Peter Hollingworth

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that…

— Benjamin Tucker

I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

— Frederick Lenz

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

— Francois Fenelon

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

— Julien Temple

I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

— Susanne Wuest

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

— Naomi Klein

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

— Miguel

Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

— Mariane Pearl

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

— Simone Weil

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

— Joseph Conrad

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

— Anonymous

Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.

— Boaz Lavie

It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.

— Martin Sorrell

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

— Jeremy London

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

— Criss Jami