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Quotes About Extreme

The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.
~ Patrick Murphy
In some studies, brain scans of severely sleep-deprived individuals are similar to those of psychopaths, people with an extreme form of antisocial personality disorder.
~ Robert A. Norman
Certainly, several of our most sensational cults—the Charles Man-son Family, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple, and Marshall Herff Applewhite's Heaven's Gate—take on a different aspect in the wake of Aum. The same is true of the cultic milieu of the present-day extreme right, where fantasies of using weapons of mass destruction to transform and purify the world are powerfully present.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
The desperation to support an untenable position to which one is nonetheless committed has caused centuries of extreme mental gymnastics.
~ Laurie R. King
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.
~ George Berkeley
I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.
~ Alan Moore
I thought, Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!
~ Alan Moore
There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.
~ Dietrich Mateschitz
When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.
~ Dietrich Mateschitz
It is only by such extreme measures that the average man can remember something long ago; truly, not that he remembers, but that crime itself is the door to an accumulation, a way to lay hands on the shudder of a past that is still vibrating.
~ Djuna Barnes
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.
~ Chris Hadfield
I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.
~ Johnny Depp
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
~ June Jordan
I sometimes feel, the president wrote, that the world problems are getting worse instead of better. In our own country, however, in spite of sniping, 'chiseling' and growling by the extreme right and by the extreme left, we are actually putting people back to work and raising values.
~ Erik Larson
What most likely caused the second event was the rupture of a main steam line, carrying steam under extreme pressure. This was Turner's theory from the beginning.
~ Erik Larson
The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.
~ Erik Larson
As Kierkegaard sums it up "The loss of possibility signifies either that everything has become necessary to man or that everything has become trivial. Actually, in the extreme of depressive psychosis, we seem to see the merger of these two. Everything becomes necessary and trivial at the same time, which leads to complete despair.
~ Ernest Becker
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.
~ Andrew Weil
To worry about these consequences of extreme inequality has nothing to do with being envious of the rich and everything to with the fear that rapidly growing top incomes are a threat to the wellbeing of everyone else.
~ Angus Deaton
Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.
~ Jason Statham
I got so broke that I had to take a job on a show called 'BrainRush.' That was purely for money. I was hosting this game show where it's like 'Cash Cab' on a roller coaster, which is extreme, especially for me, since I hate roller coasters.
~ Lamorne Morris
I have a unique lens on how the extreme priorities of the NRA's leaders are dangerous for America, Atlanta and communities of color.
~ Lucy McBath
I think I've done every disgusting thing you can in a film.
~ Seann William Scott
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
~ Jean Cocteau