Quotes About Extreme Measures

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

Horace

#2. The criminalization of a non-custodial in not uncommon; such extreme measures of the divorce and post-divorce process can be described as common practice. Stephen Baskerville describes this consequence of no-fault in the article, "Divorced from Reality.

H. Kirk Rainer

#3. 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.

Sam Houston

#4. If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

Mark Twain

#5. The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal response to greenhouse gases is to start modestly.

Robert O. Mendelsohn

#6. It is only by such extreme measures that the average man can remember something long ago; truly, not that he remembers, but that crime itself is the door to an accumulation, a way to lay hands on the shudder of a past that is still vibrating.

Djuna Barnes

#7. I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

Jason Wu

#8. The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".

Dean Koontz

#10. Here in Los Angeles, school's out for summer. For thousands of school kids, this is the first week of summer vacation. And for thousands of parents, it's the first week of hell.

Craig Ferguson

#11. When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#12. I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.

Jerry Stiller

#13. To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ... it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.

Julia Glass

#14. You were talking to her before, right?" "Yeah. It was going well. Now it's all strange." "Have you considered extreme, desperate measures like talking to her again?

Scott Lynch

#15. For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

Hippocrates

#16. just let Mitch be Mitch

Vince Flynn

#17. Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender.

M. Scott Peck

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

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#19. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

Abbas Kiarostami

#20. around the open windows, but it was too

Diane Chamberlain

#21. One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.

John Hull

#22. Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn't want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons.

Vladimir Putin

#23. Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

Sally Field

#24. If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston S. Churchill

#25. The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun ... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.

Lori Foster

#26. Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

James Madison