Quotes about Extremes

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. Votes: 6

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. Votes: 4

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available. Votes: 4

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. Votes: 4

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. Votes: 4

Extremes are dangerous. Votes: 3

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other. Votes: 3

Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth. Votes: 3

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. Votes: 3

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. Votes: 3

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God. Votes: 3

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. Votes: 3

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. Votes: 3

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. Votes: 3

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. Votes: 3

No violent extreme endures. Votes: 2

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. Votes: 2

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. Votes: 2

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy. Votes: 2

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. Votes: 2

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes. Votes: 2

Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes. Votes: 2

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. Votes: 2

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being. Votes: 2

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Votes: 2

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. Votes: 2

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. Votes: 2

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. Votes: 2

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Votes: 2

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown. Votes: 2

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. Votes: 2

Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. Votes: 2

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. Votes: 2

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. Votes: 2

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Votes: 2

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible. Votes: 2

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front. Votes: 2

The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life. Votes: 2

Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.' Votes: 2

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. Votes: 2

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference. Votes: 2

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like. Votes: 2

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food. Votes: 2

I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better. Votes: 2

Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction. Votes: 2

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. Votes: 2

It's interesting because we live in a country where the obesity is so enormous. And then the reflection on the runways is girls that are so thin. So there's two extremes that are almost like a reflection of themselves, and it's very hard to be in the middle with girls that are just healthy. Votes: 2

The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public. Votes: 2

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress. Votes: 2

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice. Votes: 2

All extremes are dangerous. Votes: 0

Moderation shifts when extremes do. Votes: 0

Perfect reason avoids all extremes. Votes: 0

Youth deals only in extremes ... Votes: 0

Who can be patient in extremes? Votes: 0

The young are always in extremes. Votes: 0

Keep a mid course between two extremes. Votes: 0

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time. Votes: 0

The best things are placed between extremes. Votes: 0

I don't know why I go to extremes. Votes: 0

I'm curious about the extremes of the world Votes: 0

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. Votes: 0

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance. Votes: 0

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction. Votes: 0

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. Votes: 0

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes. Votes: 0

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there. Votes: 0

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom. Votes: 0

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance. Votes: 0

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. Votes: 0

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. Votes: 0

time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ... Votes: 0

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places. Votes: 0

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen. Votes: 0

Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes. Votes: 0

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. Votes: 0

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. Votes: 0

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men. Votes: 0

I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters. Votes: 0

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. Votes: 0

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. Votes: 0

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes. Votes: 0

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . . Votes: 0

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet. Votes: 0

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. Votes: 0

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves. Votes: 0

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. Votes: 0

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction. Votes: 0

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes. Votes: 0

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. Votes: 0

I think the extremes are something that's really interesting to see coalesce in movies. Votes: 0

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there. Votes: 0

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. Votes: 0

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday. Votes: 0

Wherever Thou cast his eyes in extremes of love, a perfect creation is born. Votes: 0

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it. Votes: 0

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. Votes: 0

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. Votes: 0

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. Votes: 0

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. Votes: 0

Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes. Votes: 0

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. Votes: 0

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in. Votes: 0

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general. Votes: 0

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes. Votes: 0

There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. Votes: 0

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work. Votes: 0

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity. Votes: 0

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale. Votes: 0

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own. Votes: 0

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive. Votes: 0

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation. Votes: 0

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes. Votes: 0

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates. Votes: 0

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional. Votes: 0

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates. Votes: 0

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. Votes: 0

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind. Votes: 0

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical. Votes: 0

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. Votes: 0

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.] Votes: 0

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork. Votes: 0

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both. Votes: 0

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. Votes: 0

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. Votes: 0

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes. Votes: 0

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up. Votes: 0

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them. Votes: 0

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience... Votes: 0

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool. Votes: 0

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others. Votes: 0

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. Votes: 0

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man. Votes: 0

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul. Votes: 0

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.' Votes: 0

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme. Votes: 0

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand? Votes: 0

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know. Votes: 0

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. Votes: 0

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. Votes: 0

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. Votes: 0

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society. Votes: 0

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation? Votes: 0

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. Votes: 0

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with. Votes: 0

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed. Votes: 0

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed. Votes: 0

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence. Votes: 0

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash. Votes: 0

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes. Votes: 0

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. Votes: 0

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it. Votes: 0

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. Votes: 0

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies. Votes: 0

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is. Votes: 0

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Votes: 0

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes. Votes: 0

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both. Votes: 0

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability. Votes: 0

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. Votes: 0

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria. Votes: 0

Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.) Votes: 0

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. Votes: 0

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center. Votes: 0

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion. Votes: 0

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves. Votes: 0

Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing. Votes: 0

As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences. Votes: 0

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes. Votes: 0

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken. Votes: 0

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity. Votes: 0

The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style. Votes: 0

I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have. Votes: 0

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened. Votes: 0

The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute, not even death Votes: 0

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's through traveling you make the great journey into yourself, and it's the clarity of extremes in traveling that forces you to meet yourself like you've never met yourself before. Votes: 0

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle. Votes: 0

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes. Votes: 0

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course. Votes: 0

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 the eye. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes. Votes: 0

The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios. Votes: 0

The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. . . The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment. Votes: 0

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity. Votes: 0

What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted. Votes: 0