Top 506 Extremes Quotes & Sayings

I don't know why I go to extremes.

All extremes are dangerous.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

I have an affinity towards extremes.

I live in the extremes.

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.

I'm interested in extremes, in many ways.

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.

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feeds on imbalance, the ego feeds on extremes. The ego lives on the polarities - in the middle it disappears. And in every area, in every direction of life, remember this: just stop in the middle and soon you will find the mind has stopped, the ego has stopped. Nothing to claim, it disappears. And when it disappears you have become virtuous. Now the door is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking a bunch of characters and it usually is a bunch of characters, and you throw something at them that's usually extreme, like a bag of money, or you send them out to explode a nuclear device on the surface of the sun. And those extremes are wonderful for drama.

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

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.

The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.

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.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

I'm curious about the extremes of the world

I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the mode where, "I've got to choose every good option." They should just play the game. And they should get equal consequences or rewards for that, that are different from the extremes.

Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters carries meaning not only from what was just said but from all the conversations that came before - and 'before' can span a lifetime. The layers of meaning combine profound connection with equally profound competition.

Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes.

The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tempering the climate and the temperaments of the Scots, as the driest land became moist and the wettest land became dry, seedlings finding a mean between extremes, and the trees constructing a moderate zone for themselves even into what I would have called tundra, until I understood the fact that Aristotle taught, while walking in a botanic garden, that the middle is fittest to discern the extremes.

I'm a child of extremes.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

The young are always in extremes.

Who can be patient in extremes?

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

Youth deals only in extremes.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.

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.

Moderation shifts when extremes do.

The best things are placed between extremes.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns himself with the expression of that life. What I want to do is to bring about harmony between the two extremes, for therein lies the Truth. The harmony of life is the understanding of Truth.

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

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

I like extremes.

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

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

Extremes are dangerous.

I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters.