Quotes About Extreme

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Their intense happiness isolated them from all the rest of the world, and they only spoke in broken words, which are the tokens of a joy so extreme that they seem rather the expression of sorrow.

It has been noticed that, in the face of imminent danger, a man rarely remains at his normal level; he either rises well above himself or dips well below. The same happens to nations. Extreme dangers, instead of lifting a nation, sometimes end by bringing it low; they arouse its passions without giving them direction and confuse its perceptions without clarification.

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.

Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

Not Yankees, not Marxists, but Peronists," as their simple but vehement way of rejecting Marxist state capitalism of the sort then incarnated in the Soviet Union, as well as the extreme capitalism associated with the United States.

troubled to the extreme limit of trouble by his radiant face and by the damnation for all souls which shone from it

Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg.

You know you live in Phoenix when the cold-water faucet is hotter than the hot-water faucet.

Summum ius summa iniuria [Extreme justice is extreme injustice].

Reports of miracles are like positive test results for very unusual diseases. They must be treated with extreme caution, because however remote the possibility of error or deceit may seem, it may still be less remote than the possibility that a miracle has occurred.

I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.

Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.

I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or jumping out of planes. I'm into all that crazy stuff.

My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.

The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.

It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

I've always pushed my body way too hard, gone days without eating at 20,000 feet, and caught every exotic bug that didn't kill me.

I was always pushing the limits, going as far as I could. I would do all kinds of crazy things.

I want my health to be perfect when I'm pushing the edge.