Extremes Quotes
1106 Extremes quotes by 890 unique authors
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The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for…
— Bill Ayers
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In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...
— John Naisbitt
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My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable
— Ai Weiwei
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Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful…
— Terry Gilliam
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
— Simone Weil
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I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
— Bear Grylls
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Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It…
— Jennifer Hudson
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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
— Walter Kirn
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Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an…
— Lurlene McDaniel
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Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry -…
— John D. Caputo
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Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world…
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
— Esther Perel
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Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation…
— Amanda Ripley
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Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping…
— Jane McGonigal
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Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.
— Walter Benjamin
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Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions,…
— Denis Waitley
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Your least frequent, most extreme exertions will have the greatest influence on your fitness. The peak moments of a workout count far more than the…
— Unknown Author
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If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.
— Marco Pierre White
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It's true. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
— Bill Bailey
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We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to…
— David Lloyd-Jones
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