Extremes Quotes - Page 2

• I always go extreme ways.

  Niki Lauda

  Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Neil LaBute

  Thinking, Opposites, Victim

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• In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Character, Stories

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• Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Two Extremes

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• 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.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Stupid, Self, People

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

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Two Extremes, Imbalance, Causes

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• 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.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Ideas, Hearing, Problem

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.120, Take Root Media

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• One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

  Emma Goldman

  Social, True Things

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.31, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Work

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• Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Age, Leaps And Bounds, Reactions

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• I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Feelings, Feels

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• Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hope, Misery, Born

  "Unpopular Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Chapter 3: The Future of Mankind (p. 36), 1950.

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Music, Fear

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• Extremes are dangerous.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Danger, Dangerous

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55

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• If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Want, Ifs, Consequence

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• 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.

  John Dryden

  God, Devil, Usual

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• Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

  Steven Hill

  Life Changing, People, Skins

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• Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Vices, Mediocrity, Virtue

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, December 21, 1843.

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• Extreme complication is contrary to art.

  Claude Debussy

  Art, Complication, Contrary

  "French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré". Book by Martin Cooper (p. 136), 1951; later quoted in "Debussy and Wagner", book by Robin Holloway (p. 207), 1979.

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• Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

  Frank Capra

  Opposites, Situation, Turns

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• Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

  Julian Schnabel

  Dark, Light, People

  Julian Schnabel (1987). “CVJ: nicknames of maitre D's & other excerpts from life”, Random House Inc

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• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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• Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

  Brad Pitt

  Time, Poverty, Evening

  "Hyde Park centre stage of greatest show on earth" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2005.

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• My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

  Gary Cherone

  Heart, Two, Records

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