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I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past. — Berthe Morisot

Extremes are dangerous. — Jonathan Mayhew

Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends ... and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death. — Milan Kundera

There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw. — John Quincy Adams

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind. — Charles Caleb Colton

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool. — Charles Spurgeon

This was life though, wasn't it? Death made you crave life. The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes. — Harlan Coben

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters. — Kyle Cassie

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday. — Jamie Oliver

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general. — Grimes

So do extremes meet; and such is sometimes the all-embracing capacity of the approval of a fool! — Wilkie Collins

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down. — Walter Kirn

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. — Moliere

The sage sees things as they are, And takes the middle path, Away from the extremes. — Ali Binazir

The reason we shouldn't pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes. — Gary Keller

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] — Horace

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other. — James Sheridan Knowles

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. — George Eliot

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. — Danny Boyle

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. ... It's the party at present in power. — Peter Ustinov

Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads. — Susan Cooper

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation. — Baron De Montesquieu

Extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery. — Dodie Smith

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ... — Aphra Behn

The young are always in extremes. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes. — Michael Kors

The living could not possibly understand what it felt like to be a monster. And the extremes to which a monster would go to be at peace. — Maggie LaCroix

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes. — Courteney Cox

Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans. — Manfred Gerstenfeld

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. — Trent Reznor

The best things are placed between extremes. — Aristotle.

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence. — Dalai Lama

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. — Criss Jami

The women of this family leaned towards extremes. — Jane Urquhart

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Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. — Benjamin Franklin

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal. — Vanilla Ice

[ ... ] extremes - whether good or bad - don't fit into society's definition of normality — Marilyn Manson

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves. — Jerzy Kosinski

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. — Mark Van Doren

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. — Aristotle.

KURT DANIELSON: [Kurt Cobain] was the most gifted and cursed. And also the most ferocious, innocent, and nicest. A bundle of extremes and opposites. — Greg Prato

Perfect reason avoids all extremes. — Moliere

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing. — Ursula K. Le Guin

All art moves between the extremes. — Jan Fries

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society. — Bong Joon-ho

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. — Robert W. Service

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

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes. — Tim Lebbon

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy. — Vince Vaughn

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional. — Jeremy Grantham

The extreme always seems to make an impression. — Christian Slater

In the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence ... — Vincent De Paul

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction. — Rufus Choate

Extremity is the trier of spirits. — William Shakespeare

I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme. — Taylor Wilson

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul. — Pamela Moore

I'm curious about the extremes of the world — Matt Prior

There was something about this place that brought out the best and worst in you, pushing you to extremes. — Karen Katchur

Extremes of feeling are allied to madness; — Virginia Woolf

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind. — Francois Fenelon

Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain't pretty. — Julian Castro

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all extremes,
Ope no more, for now Love dies. — John Ford

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes. — Takeru Kobayashi

I trust that absolutes have gradations. — Jane Austen

But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern. — Aphra Behn

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates. — Claire McCaskill

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own. — Thomas Kyd

The worst extremes usually start with slight deviations. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to. — Seneca The Younger

Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes. — Carl Lentz

I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have. — Owain Yeoman

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. — Eric Maisel

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. — Richard Cecil

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous ... — James Tiptree Jr.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them. — Blaise Pascal

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes. — Walton Goggins

It's no wonder people lack romance in their lives, love belongs to those who are willing to go to extremes for it. — Tom Robbins

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton

The truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work. — Georgia Harkness

Extreme justice is often injustice. — Jean Racine

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. — Charles Bukowski

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them. — Francis Chan

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

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence. — James Dobson

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen. — Keegan Connor Tracy

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

visionaries lives between 2 extremes — Ikechukwu Joseph

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. — Isaac Watts

Dark and light. Horror and beauty. Everything is extremes. — Sarah Pinborough