Top 77 Extremes Quotes

I haven’t got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

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.

Extremes are dangerous.

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.

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.

The reality is that ‘Westworld’ is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy – be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.

Politics is real. It has an impact on people’s lives. It’s harder to quantify the impact art has. Personally, I oscillate between two extremes. Some days I think it’s very important. Other days I think it isn’t important at all.

Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It’s because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can’t see a way out of their situation.

I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.

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.

I think I’ve had extremes of being unable to exist outside of my own head, and then I only am existing for other people… There’s a middle ground where I should take care of myself and other people.

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.

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.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it’s a great kind of balance to have.

The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.

I’ve always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of fascinating people.

I want ‘Scars to Your Beautiful’ to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it’s me, it’s you – it’s every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.

I live in the extremes.

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

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.

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 Haters’ has some of the generalities of band experiences that I’ve had – the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality – but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.

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.

I think there’s tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that lend themselves to fantasy.

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

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

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

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

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.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it’s natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I’m afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what’s there, to embrace it. I don’t know why, but I’m drawn.

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in ‘The Winter People,’ I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

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

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now – and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

I have realised I need to tone down and be easy at times. It is good to be competitive and have a fighting spirit, but one should not go to extremes.

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 totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I’ll run a couple of extra miles. I think it’s all about balance and not getting into extremes with dieting and exercising. Having a healthy attitude is important, too!

The extremes of who I’d love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don’t know, Bjork.

As an actor, what I’m finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that’s really fun to play with.

America is a funny place; it’s a land of extremes, I think. There’s fantastic, and there’s gobsmackingly dreadful. In every realm you could imagine, they do extremes very well or badly, depending on how you look at it.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

If you want to come fight the good fight to make a difference for people and to try to get the government back on track, where we govern from the middle and not from the extremes, then understand that it’s a lonely road, and you’re going to have a hard time.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

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.

What I saw when I was doing research is that in pursuit of a middle ground, people will kind of split the difference between the two extremes that they’re hearing. And I think what’s problematic is that people are seeing vaccinating on schedule, on time, as an extreme position.

It’s interesting because we live in a country where the obesity is so enormous. And then the reflection on the runways is girls that are so thin. So there’s two extremes that are almost like a reflection of themselves, and it’s very hard to be in the middle with girls that are just healthy.

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.

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

To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.

I’m interested in extremes, in many ways.

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.

Some bitcoin users see the hard fork as in some ways violating their most fundamental values. I personally think these fundamental values, pushed to such extremes, are silly.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

It goes to extremes – from people saying I’m the best of all-time to people saying, ‘I hate that white boy.’ Who cares? At the end of the day, if people don’t like you, they’re not your friends anyway. They’re not going to be supporting you by buying your tickets and CDs and clothes.

When I’m traveling, I like extremes. It’s nice for me to go to Canada in the mountains where it’s snowing or to Cambodia where it’s stifling.

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they’re about extremes.

The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These damage the physical infrastructure of buildings and bridges roads and railways. They are violent and disruptive.

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.

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.

Don’t avoid extremes, and don’t choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities – that is the art, the secret of balancing.

If you take away people’s identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don’t be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.

I’ve often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I’m working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they’re hard to see. It’s like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?

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

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.

I’ve had to deal with all different types of situations – positive and negative and extremes of both.

Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the happiness and beauty and everything in between. Having all those extremes is itself a satisfying, positive thing.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they’re not at a 10 for happy, they’re not happy.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.

I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?

There’s two extremes in male sport: there’s complete and total worship of them, or complete and utter contempt. Those extremes create huge problems at either end. And it creates distance, too, and leads them into a bubble.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I’ve spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.