Two Extremes Quotes

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

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Extremes

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• Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.

  Michael Kors

  Two, Giving, Caviar

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• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Vices

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• The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Rocks, Two

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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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• However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Evil, Middle Path

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Negative, Different, Type

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• You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

  Harold H. Greene

  Mean, Lectures, Poor

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• 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

  Character, Athlete, Decision

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

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Imbalance, Causes, Helping

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• Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

  Cindy Sherman

  Silly, Thinking, Self

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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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• If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Rights, Two, Netherlands

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• A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

  Aberjhani

  Life, Change, Essence

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's rights activist, which is basically the only two ways men have of talking about gender right now, I mean that's just ridiculous. That's just two extremes that are totally useless.

  Stephen Marche

  Taken, Mean, Night

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• People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10 copies. The message I'm giving out, that what we think about becomes true for us, and negative thoughts mean good things don't happen, isn't always easy for some people to take.

  Louise Hay

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• Keep a mid course between two extremes.

  Ovid

  Two, Moderation, Extremes

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• Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Two, Perfect, Cowardice

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• I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

  Geddy Lee

  Attitude, Responsibility, Swings

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• There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

  Henri

  Pain, Two, Want

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• There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Attitude

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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• He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes depending on who else was around, how much either of us had to drink, and other varying factors. This was exactly what I wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

  Sarah Dessen

  Commitment, Hands, Two

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

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• There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns himself with the expression of that life. What I want to do is to bring about harmony between the two extremes, for therein lies the Truth. The harmony of life is the understanding of Truth.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Lying, Men, Two

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• 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

  Kissing, Two, Ungrateful

  Alain De Botton (1993). “Essays in Love”

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• Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Moving, Tired, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.201, The Floating Press

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