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Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.
So do extremes meet; and such is sometimes the all-embracing capacity of the approval of a fool!
Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.
Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...
There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
your irrational range
true suffering as flamboyance
as starving carnivore as disappearance
Push your limit to the absolute extreme.
We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.
My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
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 haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
Extreme justice is often injustice.
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.
Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.
I always go extreme ways.
All art moves between the extremes.
A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
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.
All extreme opinions consume themselves.
That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.
I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.
In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.
The young are always in extremes.
In response to the extraordinary
There wasn't an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I'd die at them too.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance ... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.
Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.
An uncultured mind often gets attracted by the extreme.
The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.
In the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence ...
Absurdity of absurdities.
The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.
Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.
Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.
I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal;
Virtues, of ...
Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
An admission of extreme otherness,
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.
I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.
I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that.
You push the limits and you find out where the limits are.
Absurdity and anti - absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.
The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.
For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,
I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
Endure to the very end.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.
Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness.
Extremity is the trier of spirits.
When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
Dream 2 Defy! Extreme is not a style but a way of life.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
I think the extremes are something that's really interesting to see coalesce in movies.
To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd
Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.
Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions.
Les Miserables, page 674
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.
From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.
What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now.
sharp edges of reality
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.
Surrender to the ridiculous
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
temperature of true rage is absolute zero, and
Possibilities are exciting and endless. Realities are final
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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.