Extremes Quotes

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

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

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

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.

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.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

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

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.

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.

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.