Extremity Quotes
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Extremity Quotes & Sayings
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We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.
— Chiang Kai-shek
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
— Blaise Pascal
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.
— Li-Young Lee
For it's human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.
— Leo Perutz
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
— Matthew Henry
But, like some other undiplomatic ambassadors, in her desire to be civil, she ran at once to the extremity of the permitted concessions.
— Anthony Trollope
The sight of his great valour and of the extremity of his passion might incline her heart to him.
— C.S. Lewis
Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen.
— William Finnegan
Man's extremity is God's opportunity of helping and saving.
— Matthew Henry
Life's extremities can bring God's proximity.
— Elaine A. Cannon
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
— H. Beam Piper
It is necessary to point out that we live in times in which extremity is simply the last remaining form of sanity in an increasingly mad world.
— Chilton Williamson
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smilingExtremity out of act. — William Shakespeare
I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.
— Antonya Nelson
In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
— Walter Scott
Our extremities are God's opportunities.
— Charles Spurgeon
I love you so much I could burst into flames.
— Philip Ridley
Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.
— Sarah Van Arsdale
The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life
— Diana Nyad
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
— Henry David Thoreau
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
— Aeschylus
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
— Marie Antoinette
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
Vishram is a building like the people living in it, middle class to its core. Improvement or failure, it is incapable of either extremity.
— Aravind Adiga
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
— Francois Fenelon
Extremity is the trier of spirits.
— William Shakespeare
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development— C.S. Lewis
Proceed toward "success" with extreme caution.
— Bryant McGill
