The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience,… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation. — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything,… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. — Moliere Copy Share Image
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
