Extremes Quote by Thomas Hood

“A pointed illustration indeed of the old adage that "extremes meet".”

— Charlotte Brontë

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

— Maxine Kumin

As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that…

— Chris Cleave

My childhood was extreme.

— Tori Amos

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

— Alexander Alekhine

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

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

— Lawrence Lessig

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

— Michel Foucault