One Extreme Quotes

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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will… — Thomas Jefferson
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on… — Theodore Dreiser
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other… — Walter Raleigh
My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy,… — Louise Bourgeois
I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another,… — Jan Morris
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. — Truman Capote
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes. — Trent Reznor
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. — Roscoe Mitchell
So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies… — Noam Chomsky
You can see the cruelest part of the world, the cruelest part. But then on the other side, you see the most beautiful part. Do… — Britney Spears
...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not… — John Yudkin
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo… — Chris Cornell
We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free… — Michael Crichton
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. — Eugene Field
In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other… — Stan Smith
You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the… — Giorgio Morandi
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one… — Salman Rushdie
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing,… — Graham Greene

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