Extremes Quotes

• Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

  

  William James
  • May
  • Distress
  • Ease

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Extremes
  • Vice

• The best things are placed between extremes.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Things
  • Extremes

• I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Kind
  • Criticism
  • Critical

• The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Accounts

• Youth deals only in extremes.

  

  Ursula Bloom
  • Youth
  • Deals
  • Extremes

• I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Fans

• There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices − that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue − the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Excess

• I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Horror
  • Extremes
  • Imagery

• Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

  

  Klemens von Metternich
  • Circumstances
  • Plan
  • Fail

• Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Spirit
  • Silly
  • Clever

• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  

  Alice James
  • Perfect
  • Struggle
  • Attitude

• Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Vision
  • Fatigue
  • Brushes

• I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Emotions
  • Crying
  • Minute

• All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Freedom
  • Certain
  • Limits

• Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Virtue
  • Principles

• Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.

  

  John Dalton
  • Degrees
  • Ultimate
  • Chosen

• I recently bought extreme chunky peanut butter. I opened it up.. .it was just peanuts. Wow that is extreme!

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Extremes
  • Peanuts

• EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Luxury
  • Finest
  • Couture

• Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

  

  Marco Adam and the Ants
  • Art
  • Get
  • Extremes

• When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Spiritual
  • Guitar
  • Intellectual

• Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.

  

  Christopher Landsea
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Intense

• Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

  

  Daniel N. Robinson
  • Means
  • Moderation
  • Justify

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