Extremity Quotes

48 quotes by 44 authors

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. — Juvenal
The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ...… — Marcello Malpighi
The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life — Diana Nyad
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of… — Catharine Beecher
If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive… — June Jordan
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of… — James Madison
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of… — John Flavel
PhD, MFA, self-taughtâ€”the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face… — Alexander Chee
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- — C.S. Lewis
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance… — Ieyasu Tokugawa
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding… — Marguerite Yourcenar
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. — Laozi
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer. — H. Beam Piper
A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd… — John Dryden
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the… — Andrew Jackson
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up… — Whittaker Chambers
While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women… — Zainab Salbi
In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven. — Walter Scott

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