Quotes of: Extremity Keyword

I’ve watched my dad move our family from extreme poverty to extreme wealth and then everywhere in between. Never once did I see or hear him be anything but a cheerleader for the accomplishments of others. It didn’t matter if he was down or up in ...

Single Dad Laughing

The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that re...

Pensées

I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about a lot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted to point out how when people take intractable positions on an issue, and stick to extreme sides, sometimes the result is a compromise th...

Neal Shusterman

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

Emma

Hatred is like fire. It burns the one who harnesses it. It's also extremely hard to see more helpful truths through its flames.

Gathering Darkness

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

If last night proved anything, it's that life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short - and fragile - shot glass.

Before Ever After

I couldn’t escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of the same pain.

Becoming

In the beginning there was Logos...and God of course. And it was all extremely boring for Logos because he could never beat God at any game...

The Book of the Forsaken

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Itzhak Perlman

I can remember the moment when I suddenly felt that the camera was a living partner. I suddenly felt this is art, and the camera is a co-operative living person. After that I was extremely happy to act in films.

Erland Josephson

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!

The Art of Happiness

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

Wallace Shawn

Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.

How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships