Quotes About Extremity

system that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode

Winner-take-all effects are worsening:

Es que no saben que el único ordenador inhackeable es el que tiene instalado un sistema operativo seguro y está encerrado en una caja fuerte de acero enterrada bajo una tonelada de hormigón en el fondo de una mina de carbón protegida por los SAS y un par de divisiones armadas, y además está apagado?

I can't do anything in moderation.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

When brutality is the only option left, it is holy.

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity.

The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.

L'excès de la douleur, comme l'excès de la joie, est une chose violente qui dure peu. Le cÅ"ur de l'homme ne peut rester longtemps dans une extrémité.

Nigel It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black.

Force, he believed, was the last resort of incompetence; he had said so frequently enough since this operation had begun. Of course, he was absolutely right, though not in the way he meant. Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

She looked at him a moment in silence and wonder. She did not yet know that she was a great actress—that the knowledge of how men and women behave in extremity was at the center of her lifework

Nothing exceeds like excess.

That's the recoil of the same urge. The anarchist, the criminal, the murderer, he is only the extreme lover acting on the recoil. But it is love: only in recoil. It flies back, the love-urge, and becomes a horror.

Enten er du i himmelen, eller så er du i helvete. Det finnes ingen mellomting. Det nytter ikke å vingle. Det finnes ingen middelvei! Og du, min venn, DU ER I HELVETE?!

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen.

There's a lot of madness in New Zealand because it's a mean and isolated little country. Anyone who feels too much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all the way, as far as mouldiness, bloatedness, obscenity were concerned.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.