Extremes Quotes
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If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.
William Johnson Sollas
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The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.
James Hansen
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The truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.
Georgia Harkness
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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
Cass Sunstein
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The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.
Karl Donitz
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And feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
John Milton
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There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
Stephen Fry
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I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.
Andrew Haigh
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The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.
Richard Feynman
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As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.
Daniel Pfeiffer
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We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
Geert Wilders
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I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and her loneliness and her gaze out the window.Although it was set in England, it didn't feel to me like an overly English book. In terms of the use of cultural references, it was not extreme, so it was very simple to go from England to America in the adaptation.
Erin Cressida Wilson
