Extremes Quotes
1106 Extremes quotes by 890 unique authors
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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
— Alberto Giacometti
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Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a…
— Al Gore
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Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the…
— Noam Chomsky
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Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly think that is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and the extremes and…
— John Waters
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The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where…
— Janine Antoni
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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which…
— Robert Greene
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You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
— Frans de Waal
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I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of…
— Valentino Garavani
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I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
— Tammy Bruce
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In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,
— Maurice Herzog
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In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
— Herbert Croly
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Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
— Unknown Author
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Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in…
— John O'Donohue
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A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another",…
— Unknown Author
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So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;…
— Laozi
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