Extremes Quotes

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.

Moderation shifts when extremes do.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

Problems between countries always exist, especially between such big countries as Russia and the United States. There have always been some issues, but I don't think we should go to extremes.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.

Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.

We are facing extreme volatility.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.

I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.