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Quotes About Extreme

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.
~ Criss Jami
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
~ John Clare
There is no punishment too extreme for the crazy bastard who came up with the idea of fidelity. To demand of human flesh fidelity.
~ Philip Roth
THTL— too hot to live
~ Rachel Caine
They say that ignorance is bliss. I think ignorance is the mother of extreme behavior, ensuring either a colorless and tedious life or one of passionate commitment to foolishness of one kind or another.
~ Dean Koontz
Surely Dorian Purcell has secretly authorized this extreme measure, his idea of a fail-safe.
~ Dean Koontz
The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help.
~ Maria Konnikova
Thank you," he said politely. "Though I doubt if such extreme measures were necessary in my case. I'm not a warlike man." "Too much effort?" Lani asked. He beamed at her. "Exactly. How pleasant to be understood.
~ Iris Johansen
I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.
~ J. J. Abrams
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.
~ David Frum
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
~ Jim Bunning
My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.
~ Jonathan Krohn
One of the lessons learned from 22 July is that we have to take seriously all those people who take part in debates on the Internet, expressing extreme views, and then meet them, discuss with them, bring them into the open. We have not used bans or used the laws to try to forbid parties or political tendencies which we don't like.
~ Jens Stoltenberg
What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.
~ Peggy Noonan
Congressman Bridenstine's legislative record and his own testimony during his nomination hearing show that he rejects NASA's role in earth science, adopts industry perspectives without critical analysis, and embraces extreme and divisive social views. NASA deserves better.
~ Brian Schatz
There are consequences for just expressing generally conservative views. And if those views take on the more extreme dint, the judgment can be swift.
~ Ben Domenech
I don't think I can change the fact that the court can cancel a law, but I think the court should only get involved in extreme issues like human rights violations.
~ Ayelet Shaked
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
~ Dean Koontz
I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.
~ Brian Azzarello
God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.
~ Kirstie Alley
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
~ Truman Capote
'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.
~ Luke Bracey
A couple of minutes later, the turbolift doors hissed open. Spock was standing in the turbolift. He had the air of a man who had been in an extreme hurry, but who had been stopped in midrush and given something he didn't understand. He was holding a small flat cushion.
~ Diane Duane