Extreme Quotes

1081 Extreme quotes by 885 unique authors

I like things that are unique and extreme. — Rick Rubin
And when in doubt, be extreme. — Genesis P-Orridge
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts, — John F. Kerry
My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy,… — Louise Bourgeois
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. — Alan Bullock
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is… — Simone Weil
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us… — Umberto Eco
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom. — Edward Abbey
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the… — Edward Abbey
I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the… — Viktor E. Frankl
The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was… — Nneka
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will… — John Berryman
What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round… — Michele Bachmann
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. — Eugene Ionesco
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the… — William Graham Sumner
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is… — Kate Bush
I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president… — Harry Reid
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from… — Aristotle
You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a… — Maurice Samuel
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it;… — Friedrich Schiller
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad… — Stephen Fry
I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true. — Bill Kurtis
Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German scientists published in… — Al Gore
A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum… — Van Jones
At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist. — Robert D Bullard

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