Quotes About Extreme

I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.

There have been plenty of Republican efforts to go to the extreme scandal zone. Impeaching Bill Clinton was a classic example. Fortunately, the Senate had enough sense to acquit Clinton, and the American people were behind him in huge numbers.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

Obviously, he was dealing with a lunatic who should be handled with extreme care.

A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.

Doing things with serious consequences, whether it's death or seriously mangling myself, puts me in a hyper-aware state, and has become somewhat of an addiction for me.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

extreme event as a starting point and not treat it as an exception to be pushed under the rug.

In the last fifty years, the ten most extreme days in the financial markets represent half the returns.

Few researchers today accept Dobyns's estimates—they seem extreme—but most believe that native numbers were far higher than estimated by previous generations. Most, but not all.

I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit," said the travel agent.

It was one of ours originally, but no human being can sprint around a building with their helmet off and backpack missing in a fimbulwinter cold enough to freeze liquid oxygen.

You know, I come out of the church. I not only grew up in the church but graduated from seminary, and I look at this as a mass movement. I give it very little religious legitimacy, especially the extreme wing of it.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I get very overexcited. But I do get very low, too... I don't know whether it's inherited or learned.

Sometimes I am moody or bubbly, and then at other times, I just want to disconnect. I am an extreme person.

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

Timbuktu. The last pure place. Isolation being the mother of purity. All men are jealous of Timbuktu because Timbuktu is removed from men, it's the wholeness men have fractured, the sacred extreme they've traded away.

The so-called conservative right that now dominates the Republican Party is, in fact, extreme, radical, and deeply at odds with the American political tradition; it poses a profound threat to the American republic. The assault on liberalism by the right targets not only the New Deal state, but the Constitution and the American political system as well.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.