Extremes Quotes

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Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people… — Annie Dillard
Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet. — William Shakespeare
Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world… — Arianna Huffington
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle. — Dodie Smith
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item… — Elizabeth Gilbert
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. — Charles Bukowski
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the… — Paul Krugman
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother… — Lisa See
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a… — Alan Moore
The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping,… — Robert Frost
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme… — John Waters
My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation. — John Waters
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to… — Noam Chomsky
Speak in extremes, it'll save you time. — David Bowie
Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after… — Dean Koontz
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen… — Khalil Gibran
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to… — Emile M. Cioran
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion… — Blaise Pascal
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness… — Frank Herbert
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character… — Philip Pullman
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would… — Bernhard Schlink

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