Extreme Quotes

1081 Extreme quotes by 885 unique authors

You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was… — Jim Courier
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we… — Dean Koontz
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 as if the… — Susan Cheever
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. — Hippocrates
You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest… — Keith Brantly
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of… — Don Kates
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional… — Daniel D. Polsby
Hey, I drank milk that was a DAY past its expiration date. Now THAT is extreme! — Kurt Angle
The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat of being sent back to… — Unknown Author
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe… — Christopher Landsea
All evils are equal when they are extreme. — Pierre Corneille
A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and… — Marvin J. Ashton
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the… — Alexander Trocchi
Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. — Erwin Rommel
Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self. — Eric Hoffer
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. — Roy Hattersley
Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity. — Pearl S. Buck
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other… — Walter Raleigh
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. — Joseph Hall
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which… — Erwin Rommel
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was… — Francis Darwin
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be… — Joseph Brodsky
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce

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