Extremes Quotes

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

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.

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.

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

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.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

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.

Extremes are dangerous.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

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

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

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

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

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.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

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.

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.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

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.