Extremes Quotes

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Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to… — George Friedman
God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well… — Criss Jami
Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as… — Criss Jami
The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship… — Criss Jami
In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less… — Criss Jami
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. — Criss Jami
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or… — Charles de Lint
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial… — C.S. Lewis
A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the… — Winnie Byanyima
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a… — Joseph Conrad
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or… — Ernest Hemingway
No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with… — Edwin Moses
I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom… — Questlove
I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions… — Courteney Cox
It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between. — Paul Davies
Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs… — Roseanne Barr
It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them… — Gloria Steinem
I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're… — Bruno Mars
It goes to extremes - from people saying I'm the best of all-time to people saying, "I hate that white boy." Who cares? At the… — Riff Raff
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and… — Al Franken
There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know. — Stephen Fry

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