Quotes About Extremes

The bitter thought against which Don Juan hopelessly rebels is the same thought that contains the promise of Tristan's consolation: the thought of death. Don Juanism and Tristanism are extreme responses to a perception that lies at the root of human attraction and human love: the thought of our common mortality.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.

I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

We hope the future will turn out well, but we fear it won't. As members of the crowd we will always take these emotions to extremes. When the herd instinct combines with hope and fear in a market environment, we get panics and manias.

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

It goes to extremes - from people saying I'm the best of all-time to people saying, 'I hate that white boy.' Who cares? At the end of the day, if people don't like you, they're not your friends anyway. They're not going to be supporting you by buying your tickets and CDs and clothes.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

It is only in the extremes, on the margins of existence, where life is worth living, where we can learn what's possible for ourselves and for the rest of humanity. The middle of the road leads nowhere , it reveals nothing about man other than ambivalence and fear.

Some virtues, when taken to the extreme, become crimes.

Non esiste al mondo felicità né infelicità, esiste solo il confronto tra una condizione e un'altra, e basta. Solo chi ha provato la sventura estrema è adatto a sentire l'estrema felicità. Bisogna aver voluto morire, Maximilien, per sapere quanto è bello vivere.

Não existe felicidade nem infelicidade neste mundo, o que existe é comparação entre esses dois estados, nada mais. Só aquele que passou pelo extremo infortúnio pode sentir a extrema felicidade. É preciso ter querido morrer, Maximilien, para saber como é bom viver.

They were blind to a cold fact of evolution…that progress stems from the clashing merger of antagonistic extremes, out of the marriage of pinnacle freaks.

Alt?n bir çaÄŸ yaÅŸan?yordu; benzersiz maceralar, zengin yaÅŸam ve zor ölüm devriydi bu . . . ama kimse öyle düÅŸünmüyordu. Servet ve h?rs?zl?kla, yaÄŸma ve çapulculukla, kültür ve ahlaks?zl?kla dolu bir gelecekti bu . . . ama kimse bunu kabul etmiyordu. A??r?l?klar?n ça??yd?, hilkat garibelerinin büyüleyici yüzy?l? . . . ama kimse bundan hoÅŸlanm?yordu.

It is equally dangerous at either extreme - to have either an expanding concept of mental disorder that eliminates normal or to have an expanding concept of normal that eliminates mental disorder.