Extremes Quotes - Page 36

• Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

  Boaz Lavie

  Real, The End Of The Day, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Poverty, Bottom

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

  Julien Temple

  Jobs, Sex, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.

  John Henry Newman

  Teacher, Order, Errors

  5 Copy quote

• The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

  Hans Arp

  Men, Touching, Symbols

  12 Copy quote

• When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Betrayal, Reading, Character

  5 Copy quote

• All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

  Moliere

  Wise, Perfect, Wish

  8 Copy quote

• I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rights, Government, People

  Abraham Lincoln, H. C. Whitney, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1907). “State papers, 1861-1865”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

  Leigh Hunt

  Wit, Clash, Meetings

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Leigh Hunt's Works”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.

  Eudora Welty

  Running, People, Waiting

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.38, Modern Library

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Science, Men

  44 Copy quote

• There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Believe, Moderation

  9 Copy quote

• The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.

  John Berger

  Reality, Finishing, Impossible

  John Berger (2014). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices.

  Pamela Anderson

  Years, Practice, Kfc

  "Pamela Anderson takes on KFC", www.cnn.com. October 17, 2003.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

  William Saroyan

  Vanity, Facts, Recognition

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book by William Saroyan, 1961.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

  Jean Racine

  Innocence, Crime, Great Ones

  8 Copy quote

• Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

  Francis Picabia

  Art, Useless, Impossible

  "Francis Picabia, Trouble Maker" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2016.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

  Philip Sidney

  Pain, Life And Death, Monsters

  8 Copy quote

• Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Wall, Orange, Color

  7 Copy quote

• In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

  Stan Smith

  Real, White, Numbers

  20 Copy quote

• We will never forget that blessing. It was the most pained and moving blessing, which left us with the extreme testimony of his will to complete his ministry until the end.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Moving, Blessing, Ministry

  4 Copy quote

• It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Religious, Philosophical, Creativity

  10 Copy quote

• Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

  Yves Klein

  Preparation, Hours, Minutes

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. pp. 55-57, 1974.

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Greatness, Space, Reaching

  33 Copy quote

• The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

  Kevin Watkins

  Children, Men, Fellow Man

  4 Copy quote