Extreme Quotes

1081 Extreme quotes by 885 unique authors

Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean,… — Brad Alan Lewis
People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I… — Robert Cheeke
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened. — Augusten Burroughs
I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not hot enough. The… — Arthur Eddington
One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided… — Robert Nozick
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings… — Alain de Botton
It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so. — Spencer W. Kimball
If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have… — Mike Tyson
You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry. — Steven Morrissey
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies. — Robert Ludlum
Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European… — James Hansen
A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn… — Mark Shurtleff
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be… — Nouriel Roubini
Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times. — Nuno Bettencourt
Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme. — Alfred Shrubb
Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of… — Banana Yoshimoto
When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point… — Simone Weil
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to… — Jaron Lanier
The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather - because what… — Jimmy Fallon
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out… — Andrew Sullivan
Extreme justice is extreme injustice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads… — Bill Joy
So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies… — Noam Chomsky
Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no… — Charles R. Swindoll
Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She… — Kate Chopin

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