Extremes Quotes

The young are always in extremes.

Any color works if you push it to the extreme.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

The best things are placed between extremes.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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.

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.