Extreme Quotes

1081 Extreme quotes by 885 unique authors

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle. — Dodie Smith
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother… — Lisa See
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a… — Alan Moore
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme… — John Waters
My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation. — John Waters
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to… — Noam Chomsky
Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after… — Dean Koontz
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen… — Khalil Gibran
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to… — Emile M. Cioran
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would… — Bernhard Schlink
I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order… — Thomas Merton
Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus… — Augusten Burroughs
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of… — Jean Cocteau
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness… — Primo Levi
To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It… — Jerome Groopman
I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance,… — Sylvia Plath
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half… — Isaac Asimov
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons… — Anton Chekhov
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there,… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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