Extremes Quotes
1106 quotes by 890 authors
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You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?
— Rick Riordan
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The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I…
— James Finn Garner
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Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Baby, I don’t feel pain. Ever. (Talon) Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine) It’s a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among…
— Jon Krakauer
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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
— Walter Benjamin
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A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I…
— Lady Gaga
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He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the…
— Elena Ferrante
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Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste…
— Milan Kundera
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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
— Gilles Deleuze
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He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal…
— Rick Riordan
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Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love…
— Robert Fulghum
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Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
— Margaret Atwood
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Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.
— Ezra Pound
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It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
— Richard Preston
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People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege…
— Iris Murdoch
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What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.
— Dalai Lama
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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm…
— Ann Brashares
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Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.
— Ally Carter
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