Extremes Quotes
1106 Extremes quotes by 890 unique authors
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Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship,…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Hey, have you ever heard of the Alchemists? " "Sure, " he said. "Of course you have. " "Why? Did you run into them? "…
— Richelle Mead
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In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days." I flushed…
— Stephenie Meyer
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But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly…
— Charles Darwin
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect--…
— William Styron
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They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)
— James Patterson
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My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life…
— Haruki Murakami
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If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your…
— Deb Caletti
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Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.
— Stephenie Meyer
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I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught…
— William Shakespeare
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The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know…
— James A. Baldwin
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Juliana?†the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that…
— Sarah MacLean
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… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.
— Arundhati Roy
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Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella
— Stephenie Meyer
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I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under…
— Maya Angelou
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It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation…
— Thomas Friedman
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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no…
— Virginia Woolf
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Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.
— Terry Pratchett
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