Extreme Quotes

1081 Extreme quotes by 885 unique authors

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or… — Charles de Lint
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely. — Marcus Aurelius
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial… — C.S. Lewis
A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the… — Winnie Byanyima
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a… — Joseph Conrad
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or… — Ernest Hemingway
No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with… — Edwin Moses
I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom… — Questlove
It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between. — Paul Davies
Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs… — Roseanne Barr
It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them… — Gloria Steinem
I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're… — Bruno Mars
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and… — Al Franken
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes,… — Ina Garten
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. — Shakti Gawain
We are facing extreme volatility. — Carlos Ghosn
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. — Emma Goldman
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years. — Al Gore
Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of… — Brian Greene

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