Extremes Quotes

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
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
Extremes are dangerous. — Jonathan Mayhew
Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search… — Julian Schnabel
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
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
After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash. — Frank Bruni
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
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient… — Henry Lawson
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

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