Quotes About Extreme

Spain is an example of how hard it is for a conservative party to campaign for elections if the suspicion is fueled that it wants to go into a coalition with the extreme right.

I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories.

Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.

The tendencies that found expression among the Greeks had to be pushed to the extreme, the undue importance given to rational thought had to grow even greater, before men could arrive at 'rationalism', a specifically modern attitude that consists in not merely ignoring, but expressly denying, everything of a supra-rational order.

Speaking figuratively, they were soon chronic alcoholics, men who lived by violence, through extreme action and sensation, through drowning daily in a perpetual nervous agitation. From

He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.' There was an uncomfortable silence. 'That sounds...extreme,' Jason ventured.

Chiron said the word assist as if meant slap upside the head with extreme prejudice.

He was parsimonious in the extreme. Once, when we were together at an airport, I asked him for a dime to make a phone call. He started to walk some distance to get change for a quarter. "Warren," I exclaimed, "the quarter will do," and he sheepishly handed it over.

This polarization of two clinical states flies in the face of everything that we know about the cauldronous, fluctuating nature of manic-depressive illness; it ignores the question of whether mania is, ultimately, simply an extreme form of depression; and it minimizes the importance of mixed manic-and-depressive states, conditions that are common, extremely important clinically, and lie at the heart of many of the critical theoretical issues underlying this particular disease.

There were no butterflies, just extreme discomfort because comfort is uncomfortable to someone more acquainted with pain than love.

I'm not disallowing the possibility that I could commit murder, under extreme circumstances. But falling into a honey trap? Unknowingly fathering a child? Absolutely not.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

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.

The biggest opportunity for light to have extreme impact is where there is extreme darkness.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness.

pacifisme extrême, il le maintient lors de la mobilisation, ce qui lui vaut son incarcération quelque temps, tandis qu'en 1944, malgré une vie publique très discrète pendant l'Occupation, il est arrêté à nouveau, comme Vichyssois cette fois.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

You know Hitler? I like Hitler more than I like you, and I'm a Jew.

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?

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The weather continued to deteriorate, which seemed hardly possible.