Extremes Quotes

1106 Extremes quotes by 890 unique authors

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with… — Mencius
We are only as good as our most extreme experiences — Sloane Crosley
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. — Rocko
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. — Antonio Porchia
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community… — Amy Waldman
Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there. — Steven Strogatz
Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that… — Bob Goff
If we can live and prosper without killing, why would we not do so? I do not see veganism as 'extreme' in any way. I… — Gary L. Francione
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. — Isaac Watts
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die. — Seneca the Younger
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,… — Douglas Adams
Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness. — Eckhart Tolle
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to… — James C. Collins
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies… — John Boorman
The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both… — Unknown Author
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a… — John Naisbitt
Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ainâ€™t pretty. — Julian Castro
It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never… — Rick Yune

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