Extremes Quotes

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It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is… — Rory Miller
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data… — Stephen Jay Gould
An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb,… — Derek R. Audette
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation. — James Hansen
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue… — Ronald Reagan
Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures. — Emily Yoffe
Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in. — Boaz Lavie
Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation. — Boaz Lavie
Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom. — Joseph Stiglitz
I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what… — Julien Temple
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is… — John Henry Newman
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness. — Hans Arp
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with… — Joseph P. Farrell
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. — Moliere
I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it.… — Abraham Lincoln
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. — Leigh Hunt
Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to. — Eudora Welty
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense… — Loren Eiseley
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. — Paul Gauguin
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I… — Francoise Sagan
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it… — John Berger
I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes. — Fay Weldon
What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC… — Pamela Anderson
Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends. — Abraham Cowley

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