Quotes About Extreme

I call it extreme vetting right? Extreme vetting. I want extreme. It's going to be so tough, and if somebody comes in that's fine but they're going to be good. It's extreme.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent. That is probably the closest thing to the Extreme Elimination Chamber I can think of.

For the record, I hate skiing... and if you get killed doing it, GOOD.

I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the constitution its daily bread. It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary: it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.

I sometimes wonder if what I consider "romance" might be dying out— l'amour fou , crazy love, destructive passion, crippling jealousy, extreme and violent and tragic.

The language of shame is extreme. Hear it enough and you believe it. You are told you are disgusting and unclean, and eventually you believe you are.

Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.

From the Chaldean Mysteries, extreme unction has obviously come. Among the many names of the Babylonian god was the name "Beel-samen," "Lord of Heaven," which is the name of the sun, but also of course of the sun-god.

In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.

On an off-day I'd rather not watch SportsCenter or basketball. I'd rather go longboard, jet ski, do something extreme-sport-wise, watch racin'.

Just by going fast enough, you can ride on water with a motorcycle.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

The pursuit has just been to find the 100-foot wave.

Riding big waves was my passion.

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

Filming for 'MasterChef' with the Royal Marine Commandos in the Arctic was the only time I've felt like planet Earth was trying to kill me. It was so cold the hairs inside my nose froze.

The Mojave Desert was plus 50. Now, I've cooked duck eggs at 50 degrees celsius. You can imagine what it's like on a bike.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

I suspect that you, like I once did, are picturing the Arctic as one endless Pingu landscape of flat ice, broken only by the occasional Berghaus-clad James Cracknell type striding manfully out of the spindrift.