Top 100 Quotes About Extremes
#1. 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.
Iris Murdoch
#2. I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think and the LGBT community have an issue and because a lot of black families in America are more religious, I think that is where the conflict comes into play.
John Amaechi
#4. When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.
Richard Madden
#5. Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#7. 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.
Jean Baudrillard
#8. It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
Jodi Picoult
#10. Are ye hungry?" she asked, her voice soothing.
His stomach growled. "I could cut the heart out of a stag and eat it raw."
She chuckled. "Fortunately, we do no' have to go to such extremes.
Amy Jarecki
#11. I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
Danny Boyle
#12. In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#13. 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.
Giorgio Morandi
#14. 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.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
Francois Fenelon
#16. Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
Takeru Kobayashi
#17. Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.
Michael Kors
#18. Plenty of people are taught that the magic bullet of weight loss is to simply "eat less and move more." Worse, many people believe that exercise, an incredibly enjoyable and healthful behavior, must be taken to unenjoyable extremes if weight is a concern.
Yoni Freedhoff
#19. Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
Roy Blount Jr.
#20. 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.
John Quincy Adams
#21. Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...
Aphra Behn
#22. We can only grow through balance achieved by experiencing some extremes and most of the grays in between.
Ben Tolosa
#23. I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters.
Kyle Cassie
#24. The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#25. The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.
Laozi
#27. The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.
Henepola Gunaratana
#28. 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
Arthur Koestler
#29. In the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence ...
Vincent De Paul
#30. People with a strong physical constitution can tolerate extremes of hot and cold; people of strong mental health can handle anger, grief, joy and the other emotions.
Epictetus
#32. 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.
Gautama Buddha
#33. Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller
#34. I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
Wayne Thiebaud
#35. She knew happiness was only one side of the coin and the coin was forever turning . . . Thomasina had every reason to be happy, but instead she held her heart at the same level she had always held it, because she did not trust extremes of feeling.
Kathleen Winter
#36. 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.
Joel Robuchon
#37. We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.
Jean De La Bruyere
#38. But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.
Aphra Behn
#39. I'm curious about the extremes of the world
Matt Prior
#40. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
#42. The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
Alain De Botton
#43. Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.
Susan Cooper
#44. The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
Samuel Butler
#45. I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that.
Sebastien Foucan
#46. While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.
Andrew Niccol
#47. Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.
Rihanna
#48. When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
Jennifer Granholm
#49. If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes ... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.
Swami Vivekananda
#50. I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
Shia Labeouf
#51. This was life though, wasn't it? Death made you crave life. The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.
Harlan Coben
#52. 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.
Chris Cleave
#53. Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
Leigh Hunt
#54. Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.
William Shakespeare
#55. 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.
Frank Schatzing
#56. It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Joe Biden
#57. Education and study, and the favours of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.
Plutarch
#58. I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.
Freddie Mercury
#59. I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.
Nicholas Royle
#60. He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.
Gouverneur Morris
#61. Anyone desperate enough for suicide ... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.
Richard Bach
#62. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends ... and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.
Milan Kundera
#63. Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.
Marge Piercy
#64. One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
Danny Boyle
#65. 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.
Daniel Pfeiffer
#66. 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.
Simon Schama
#67. 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.
John Cage
#68. I have said before that I'm not a a "curist" and I'm not an "ablist" but a "neutral" because I believe everyone has a story to tell without going to unhealthy extremes if we listened with our hearts we would learn about each others experiences.
Paul Isaacs
#69. I totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I'll run a couple of extra miles. I think it's all about balance and not getting into extremes with dieting and exercising. Having a healthy attitude is important, too!
Megan Hilty
#70. The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.
Claire McCaskill
#71. And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might personally meet a fatal catastrophe first - 'non-violent' Dr. King, or so-called 'violent' me.
Malcolm X
#72. I like middles ... It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
John Updike
#73. 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.
Eric Hoffer
#74. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Alexander Hamilton
#75. It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)
Felicia Day
#76. Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in the bland middle region of respectability are lost without ever realizing it.
John O'Donohue
#77. I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?
Lauren Greenfield
#78. Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.
Doris Brown Heritage
#79. 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.
Deborah Sampson
#80. The living could not possibly understand what it felt like to be a monster. And the extremes to which a monster would go to be at peace.
Maggie LaCroix
#81. 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.
T.D. Jakes
#82. Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.
Gore Vidal
#83. Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#84. Hold out for the best there is, Kiernan. You should have it. Make sure that there's fire. Maybe there'll be ice, too, but hold out for the extremes, for the best, the brightest. Don't accept anything lukewarm. Because you're fire and ice, and you're the brightest and the best, Kiernan.
Heather Graham
#85. All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
Richard Cecil
#87. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#88. I couldn't escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of the same pain.
Samantha Summers
#89. Chaos is no surprise. It has predictable characteristics. For one thing, it carries away order and strengthens the forces at the extremes.
Frank Herbert
#90. I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.
Ed Speleers
#91. You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work.
Veronica Roth
#92. We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
Gabriel Byrne
#93. Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.
Warren Buffett
#95. This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
Quentin Crisp
#96. Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
Rufus Choate
#97. It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.
Javier Cercas
#98. Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
Anne Tyler
#99. For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
Sophocles
#100. But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.
Aphra Behn
