Quotes About Extremes

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.

Like any pendulum worth its weight, received opinion finds it difficult to swing from one extreme position and settle directly in the middle, without first hurtling all the way to the opposite extreme.

You put on a mask. But don't you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

People don't like what's happened to the big parties. They think they've been dragged off to the extremes. They think the quality of leadership is below what a country like the United Kingdom ought to have available. And they want something different.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

en todo hay dos polos o aspectos opuestos, y que los "opuestos" son realmente sólo los dos extremos de la misma cosa, con una variación de grado entre ellos.

The harsh wind of the Egyptian desert is even worse than the harsh wind of the Egyptian pharaoh.

whenever something goes to hell everywhere else in the country, Florida puts it on roller skates with rocket thrusters.

I have seen both extremes; when there was no work, I was frustrated and now that I'm overworked, I feel the same. I'm looking for a balance now.

There was something pretentious about politics when it was taken to extremes.

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. The Roanokes are rich like pharoahs and crazier'n a snake-fucking baby.

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.

When we think or act this way, we do so at either one extreme or the other. For example, either we love someone completely or we hate them. There is no middle ground. We see the people around us as either good or bad, and not the composite they really are. We judge ourselves equally as harshly. The more we use all-or-none thinking, the more it opens us up to behaving in an all-or-none fashion. Both of these actions tend to get us into trouble and to cause us to suffer unnecessarily.

The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.

He recognized that, first, the rich are always desirous of governing for their own benefit, and second that the people can always turn against them and become a mob, taking things into its own hands. As always, the mean between extremes is to be sought.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

The facet most primed for conflict is liberalism. Most industrial cultures now govern themselves with laws and elected lawmakers. This pits two extremes against each other: Liberal personalities that see every human as equal clash with low-liberalism people, who have greater faith in laws than in people.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.

The women of this family leaned towards extremes.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.