Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

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.

Aristotle

The best things are placed between extremes.

Tommy Mottola

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Jane Austen

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,

That's a very costly kind of operation. With the Visual Warning System, we wouldn't necessarily have to go to those extremes to get their attention.

And the extremes are what make the show so funny.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

Quentin Crisp

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Sloane Crosley

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Walter Benjamin

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.