Extreme Quotes

• The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Chaos
  • Weather
  • Wake-Up Call

• Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new.

  

  Hayley Atwell
  • Skiing
  • Extreme
  • Whistler

• Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

  

  Widad Akrawi
  • Peace
  • Burning
  • Victims

• Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about taboo subjects. I was 8 years old in those days, and later, in politics and society, these extreme wright ideologies got stronger - the skinhead movement was started, a lot of ex-Nazis emigrated and financially supported these extreme right movements in Hungary.

  

  Csanad Szegedi
  • Change
  • Regime
  • Anti-Semitism

• Extreme situation in which Germany finds itself, we have no choice but to vote for the grand coalition.

  

  Edmund Stoiber
  • Vote
  • Germany
  • Coalition

• When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.

  

  Csanad Szegedi
  • Conservative
  • Budapest
  • Right-Wing

• I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

  

  Nicholas Royle
  • Power
  • Idea
  • Extreme

• I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Behaviour
  • Extreme
  • Diva

• What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • America
  • Los Angeles
  • Extreme

• Bibi Netanyahu has set himself up as the head of the extreme right wing.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Up
  • Wing
  • Bibi Netanyahu

• Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

  

  Regina Hall
  • Scary
  • Extreme
  • Broad

• When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.

  

  Simon Hoggart
  • Choice
  • Views
  • Set

• Romantic love is one of the most extreme human experiences. Under a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan, passionate love looks like a lightning strike; centers deep in the midbrain flare up and release a torrent of dopamine and norepinephrine. It’s so close to what happens when we’re angry or afraid, that psychologists believe any intense feeling, in a “spillover effect,” can ignite desire.

  

  Betsy Prioleau
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Desire

• The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Extreme

• The generation gaps are becoming more and more extreme. It used to be a generation gap would be 20-plus years. Now, because technology and specifically communication technology is changing so rapidly, you have generation gaps that are like five years, ten years.

  

  Chad Kultgen
  • Years
  • Generation
  • Five

• Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.

  

  Gail Dines
  • Images
  • Considered
  • Mainstream

• My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it.

  

  Steve Truglia
  • Life
  • Extreme
  • Stunt

• We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

  

  Nicolas Winding Refn
  • Culture
  • Beauty
  • Fabulous

• Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

  

  Suzanne Vega
  • Feel
  • Write
  • About

• It was nonexistent, most of it. There were moments where I turned certain ways, or put my arm certain ways where I could feel it, but nothing real extreme.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Moments
  • Certain
  • Ways

• I'm most interested in people who've lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction.

  

  Nick Petrie
  • People
  • Fiction
  • Extreme

• Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.

  

  Kate Green
  • Taken
  • Always
  • Chaos

• I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.

  

  Michael Masser
  • Sound
  • Emotions
  • Looking

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