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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
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.
Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.
Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.
In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.
I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.
The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.
A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.
Those who believe 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.
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.
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.
As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
I really swung between the extremes. From the danger of being ostracised by the society, I almost overnight found myself as virtually the darling of the millions.
I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.
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.
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.
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.
After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.
The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.
The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.
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.
Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.
While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.
I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.
Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
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.
I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.
An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.
We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.
I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.
I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.
I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.
I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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.
There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to question their actions in a place that is merely backdrop.
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.
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.
Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.
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.
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
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.
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.
