Extremes Quotes

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.

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

I don't know why I go to extremes.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

Extremes are dangerous.

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.

Extremity is the trier of spirits.

Who can be patient in extremes?

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

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

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?