Extremes Quotes

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.

I think the extremes are something that's really interesting to see coalesce in movies.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty.

What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

I'm curious about the extremes of the world

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful.

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

My childhood was extreme.