Extremes Quotes - Page 30

• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  Gary Cherone

  Suicide, Philosophy, Writing

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• It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue is a reflection of the greater amount of wealth we've created.

  Jerry Taylor

  Reflection, Weather, Damage

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• You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution
  A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it
  And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built
  And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods
  And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are
  As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth

  Malcolm X

  Color, Long, People

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• Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individuality, Special, Eating Disorder

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• The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long. The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.

  Bill Ayers

  Determination, Regret, Lying

  "The Real Bill Ayers". Article by William Ayers, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.

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

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Two, People

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• My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

  Ai Weiwei

  Strong, Childhood, Sometimes

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• Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.

  Terry Gilliam

  Beautiful, Moving, Reality

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 05, 2003.

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• The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Greatness, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.81, Psychology Press

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• I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

  Bear Grylls

  People, Bravery, Gone

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• Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Exercise, Cake, Pie

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.102, Penguin

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• Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

  Walter Kirn

  Hate, Love You, Enemy

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• If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Travel, New York, Loneliness

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

  Stendhal

  Doe, Deeds, Stuff

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• I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

  Fred Couples

  Senior, Nice, Winning

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• Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

  William O. Douglas

  Attitude, Creativity, Men

  "Points of Rebellion". Book by William O. Douglas, 1970.

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• I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

  Calvin Trillin

  Mean, Twists, Gestalt

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• 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.

  Denis Waitley

  Champion, Deeds, Action

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• Your least frequent, most extreme exertions will have the greatest influence on your fitness. The peak moments of a workout count far more than the amount of time you spend working out. This is why a series of 40-yard sprints at full speed benefits you more than half an hour of jogging. It's also the reason why lifting a weight heavy enough to make your heart pound and your muscles burn counts more than spending hours at the gym always in your comfort zone, never truly challenging your body. When a work-out becomes an unvarying, monotonous routine, it loses its effectiveness.

  Arthur De Vany

  Workout, Heart, Effectiveness

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• Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Vegetarianism

  "Bill Bailey: Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Inspiration, Two, Preparation

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1972). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.305, Zondervan

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• The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Spring, Resentment, Language

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• Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

  Julie Burchill

  Depression, Vanity, Form

  "Growing pains" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.

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• As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Love, Distance, Unions

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• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Two, Knowing

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