Extremes Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Francoise Sagan

  Aversion, Littles, Life Is

  "Scars on the Soul". Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.

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• Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

  Abraham Cowley

  Want, Danger, Equal

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• Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Vicious, Compensation

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• I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

  Fay Weldon

  Ordinary, Ordinary Person, Persons

  Fay Weldon (2014). “Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon”, p.1126, Head of Zeus

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• The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

  Socrates

  Hate, Desire, Calm

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• 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

  Men, Second Chance, Texas

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• Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

  Aaron Hill

  Judging, Haste, Youth

  Aaron Hill (1777). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.40

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• Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

  Hippocrates

  Philosophical, Health, Disease

  "Aphorisms". 1:6,

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• We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

  Henry Lawson

  Wisdom, Eye, Independence

  Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

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• In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

  Roy Hattersley

  Political, Politics, Ridiculous

  Evening Standard, May 9, 1989.

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• It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

  Walter Raleigh

  Running, Nature, Mean

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.89

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• Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

  Joseph Hall

  Passion, People, Fool

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• This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hilarious

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.3.

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• That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

  Jasmine Guy

  Doors, Feel Good, Poverty

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• God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

  Kirstie Alley

  Reason, Violent, Plastic

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• Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

  Alan Bullock

  Weekend, Alive, Boring

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• Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

  Jean Racine

  Justice, Unjust

  "La Thébaïde". Book by Jean Racine, Act 4, sc. 3, June 20, 1664.

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• The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

  Sharon Olds

  Village, Might, Horror

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

  John Pilger

  Country, Government, Labour

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

  Tammy Bruce

  Media, Culture, Subtle

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.235, Crown Forum

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• In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

  Herbert Croly

  Mind, Democracy, Literature

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

  Thomas Hood

  Tails, Mouths, Said

  'The Doves and the Crows'

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• When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me

  Shannon Miller

  Growing Up, Eye, Cameras

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• I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Music, Bells, Next

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• I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, Knowing, People

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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