Extremes Quotes
1106 quotes by 890 authors
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Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
— Peter Singer
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for…
— Thomas Aquinas
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I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of…
— Megan McCafferty
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You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you…
— Paulo Coelho
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Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
— Naomi Klein
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Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength…
— William James
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I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't…
— Douglas Coupland
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This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante…
— Richelle Mead
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I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If…
— Emma Forrest
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Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
— Anthony Burgess
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with…
— John Stuart Mill
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Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can…
— Julia Cameron
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Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.
— Deb Caletti
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Jealousy can’t sour someone to this extreme, can it? (Aiden) It can and it does. Believe me. I’ve seen a lot worse than this in…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
— Walter Kaufmann
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...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon,…
— Chris Crutcher
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You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Why are you helping me? (Fury) I don’t know. Apparently I’m having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like…
— James Patterson
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Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.
— Ilona Andrews
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