Quotes About Extreme

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

The federal government needs to do a much better job of managing our resources, but the sale or transfer of our land is an extreme proposal, and I won't tolerate it.

The tactics in NWSL are so chaotic. It's so about physicality. It's both teams attacking with nine players, and it's just so open on the transitions, really fast-paced to the point of being out of control. The Damallsvenskan is a little extreme on the other side: it's so under control, there are 20 passes strung before you even go forward.

No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realize you are, to him, an essentially fictional character, one he has invested with nearly limitless capacities for tragedy and comedy not because that is your true nature but because he, Richard, needs to live in a world peopled by extreme and commanding figures.

Social interventions, if done early, could have huge effects on disease transmission; in the extreme they could contain it.

Cooking—of whatever kind, everyday or extreme—situates us in the world in a very special place, facing the natural world on one side and the social world on the other. The cook stands squarely between nature and culture, conducting a process of translation and negotiation. Both nature and culture are transformed by the work. And in the process, I discovered, so is the cook.

Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

I've always been big into snowmobiles, four-wheelers, jet skis, all kinds of those X Games kind of things.

I wish they'd build a ski jump at the Grand Canyon; it'd be fantastic.

As pro snowboarders, skiers, etc., we all know that what we do is risky.

I love X-Games music.

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

I do not admire the excess of a virtue as of valour, except I see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who had the greatest valour and the greatest kindness. For otherwise it is not to rise, it is to fall. We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space.

This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted

Life should come with a warning label," Diana replied. "Caution. Ups and downs ahead. Proceed with extreme care.

Striking up conversations with strangers is something like extreme sports for autistic people.

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.