Extremes Quotes
1106 Extremes quotes by 890 unique authors
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because…
— Irvine Welsh
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have…
— Mae Whitman
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Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.
— Frederick Lenz
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At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an…
— Frederick Lenz
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Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of…
— Juan Somavia
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A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart…
— Maximus the Confessor
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I always go extreme ways.
— Niki Lauda
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The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like…
— Brian Molko
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It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the…
— Frank Miller
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It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.
— Vince Vaughn
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Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.
— Julie Burchill
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As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within…
— Blaise Pascal
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A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to…
— Edward Gibbon
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When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the…
— Barack Obama
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Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as a matter of…
— Robert Zubrin
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The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.
— James A. Michener
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I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess…
— Blaise Pascal
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I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.
— Ellen Barkin
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I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New…
— Joan Cusack
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As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard…
— Ranulph Fiennes
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This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break…
— Alexander Herzen
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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously…
— Colin Hay
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Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that…
— Chris Patten
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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in…
— James F. Cooper
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