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Quotes About Extreme

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
~ Bill Gates
We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.
~ Noomi Rapace
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
~ Marquis de Sade
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
~ Marquis de Sade
Women, in other words, may in extreme circumstances publicly defend their own sectional interests, but not speak for men or the community as a whole.
~ Mary Beard
The Christian texts of the third, fourth and fifth centuries CE are some of the most extreme examples ever of the rewriting of history to fit the agenda of the winners.
~ Mary Beard
A Moment of Extreme Crisis in the Middle of Nowhere 'Oh fuck,' whispered Nora, into the cold.
~ Matt Haig
A Moment of Extreme Crisis in the Middle of Nowhere 'Oh fuck,' whispered Nora, into the cold.
~ Matt Haig
Yes! A fierce and savage wind tore at us. We were on top of Annapurna! 8,075 meters, 26,493 feet.
~ Maurice Herzog
I try to explain how people react when overwhelmed by confusion and negative emotions. Some drink too much. Others overeat or beat their wives or kick the cat. And a surprising number hold their hands against a hot plate or slice open their skin with a razor blade. It's an extreme coping mechanism. They talk about their inner pain being turned outward. By giving it a physical manifestation they find it easier to deal with. (35)
~ Michael Robotham
Although the Republicans in the 2018 congressional races were looking, according to Bannon's numbers, at a 15-point deficit, it was Bannon's belief that the more extreme the right-wing challenge appeared, the more likely the Democrats would field left-wing nutters even less electable than right-wing nutters.
~ Michael Wolff
To have worked anywhere near him is to be confronted with the most extreme and disorienting behavior possible. That is hardly an overstatement. Not only is Trump not like other presidents, he is not like anyone most of us have ever known.
~ Michael Wolff
la période des fêtes c'est plus délicat, il aurait fallu un plateau de fruits de mer, or ce sont là des choses qui se partagent, un plateau de fruits de mer en solitaire c'est une expérience ultime, même Françoise Sagan n'aurait pas pu décrire cela, c'est vraiment trop gore.
~ Michel Houellebecq
There had already been one attempt to form an Islamic party, the French Muslim Party, but it soon fell apart over the embarrassing anti-Semitism of its leader--so extreme that it drove him into an alliance with the far right. The Muslim Brotherhood learned its lesson and was careful to take a moderate line.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Kangchenjunga is something more than unfriendly, it is imbued with a blind unreasoning hatred towards the mountaineer.
~ Unknown
I felt that all my previous life had reached a climax in these hours of intense struggle against nature… in those minutes at 26,000 feet on K2, I reached depths of feeling which I can never reach again.
~ Unknown
Emperors uphold censorship, But extreme repression leads to extreme reaction. Individualists believe in freedom, But extreme expression leads to extreme reaction.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
The absence of archaea is puzzling given their evident fondness for the worst imaginable conditions on earth and ability to power ecosystems on the slimmest of organic rations. The
~ Unknown
No matter what the political environment, blasphemy laws lend the power of the state to particular religious authorities and effectively reinforce extreme views, since the most conservative or hard-line elements in a religious community are generally the quickest to take offence and the first to claim the mantle of orthodoxy. Virtually any act has the potential to draw an accusation and prosecution
~ Nick Cohen
In extreme form, stress can cause symptoms of conversion hysteria—a malaise described by Jean Charcot, Freud's teacher.
~ Norman Cousins
When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour ' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
~ Olivia Thirlby
If a situation requires swearing to God it is — by definition — extreme.
~ Pam Houston
In the United States, people interpret these things as eccentricity or – if taken to an extreme – madness,' my mother said mildly. 'Here, they are the mark of a witch. Of the two interpretations, I have to admit I prefer the second. A witch has some power. A madwoman is just a nut.
~ Pat Murphy
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
~ Paul Farmer