Extremes Quotes

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.
Fritz Sauckel

Character, May, Fact

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.
Daniel Keys Moran

Truth, Hurt, Before

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

Against, Both, Ourselves

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
Bong Joon-ho

Society, Film, Emotion

Extremes are dangerous.
Jonathan Mayhew

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.
Richard Thompson

Nature, Romantic, Human

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

Happy, Self, Lose

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

Said, Meet, Mouth

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.
Henry Lawson

Eyes, Study, Become

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
Andrew Lo

Fear, Greed, Two

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

Life, Tough, Decisions

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.
Julian Schnabel

Down, Dark, Themselves

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

Everyone, Ugly, Possible

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.
Sally Pearson

Someone, Win, Friends

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.
Douglas Booth

Love, Mind, Feeling

I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.
Michael Rooker

Done, Passionate, Points

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.
Tommy Mottola

Good, End, Hard

As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
Ranulph Fiennes

Pretty, Means, Avoid

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.
Glen Duncan

Good, Character, Bad

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