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EPHRAIM MIRVIS Extremes meet.
LOUIS SEBASTIAN MERCIER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.
PLAUTUS Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
ROBERT FROST I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you t...
BARRY M. GOLDWATER Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme l...
GEORGE CHAPMAN Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a re...
SEIGNEUR DE SAINT-EVREMOND What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the ma...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner
LEIGH HUNT With the two extremes, ranching was either something to be done away with, or something that shouldn...
BILL MCDONALD Those are the two extremes facing Oakland voters.
CY GULASSA Most of us, people live life in extreme. On one extreme some people think they live for eating, on t...
GIRDHAR JOSHI Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.
ALDOUS HUXLEY For this year, it was just really extremes.
LORI GETTER There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,
JEFFREY SCHLOSS In this world of extremes, we can only love too little.
RICH CANNARELLA You put on a mask. But don't you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes
JAMES PATTERSON We had met. I had met Shimon Peres in Cairo, in Lisbon before that, before that my colleagues met hi...
YASSER ARAFAT Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI Who can be patient in extremes?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Americans unfortunately tend to go to extremes. So if you say fat may be bad, then they'll try to el...
ABBY BLOCH The extremes are we have over 550 people in San Francisco earning over $100,000 a year, ... Principa...
GAVIN NEWSOM The extremes are we have over 550 people in San Francisco earning over $100,000 a year. Principally,...
GAVIN NEWSOM We saw the level of attention it was getting (nationally) and knew the different extremes that were ...
LIZ CARPENTER To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that...
MARK VAN DOREN You must be able to see the extremes to find the middle.
JIM GENOVESE I think he's a great millennial figure because he represents one of the darkest extremes of Western ...
DOUG WRIGHT And the extremes are what make the show so funny.
DON SARGENT We can't actually stop hurricanes or tsunamis or other extremes of nature. But ... we can avoid a lo...
GORDON MCBEAN The market despises extremes, ... That, in itself, causes the reverse.
JAMES DINES Love is a golden bubble full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or...
HENRY MILLER All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interestin...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of ...
RICHARD RUSSO Keep a mid course between two extremes.
OVID Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
DAVID BOWIE 17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance...
JAMES C. DOBSON Who can be patient in extremes? Henry Vi
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
FRANCIS CHAN In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
JOHN BYROM Nothing is more self-limiting than going to extremes.
MARTY RUBIN I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonist...
EHUD BARAK The reason we shouldn’t pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happen...
GARY KELLER This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
QUENTIN CRISP To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes th...
MARK VAN DOREN This is a market of extremes, and what you've seen is the extreme to the upside, especially in techn...
FRANCIS GANNON Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation.
MOLIERE Everything is good in moderation. Even moderation.
IVETA CHERNEVA It's a challenge of weather of extremes in conditions from ice to absolute unbelievable heat of the ...
GRANT DALTON We have had the extremes of kids walking out of mediation hugging and kissing to those who just decl...
JANE LOWE All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime,
MARSHALL MCLUHAN The true historic extremes we saw over the past week or so lent a lot of credence to the likelihood ...
JASON GOEPFERT We can choose how to think about and react to disappointment, ... At the extremes, one line of thoug...
JOSEPH WHITE The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
BEAR GRYLLS It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
JOHN UPDIKE [...] extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality
MARILYN MANSON You have to really love both extremes ? recording is really never moving and being in a hole and pla...
CHANTAL CLARET You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.
THOM TILLIS Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
ALEXANDER POPE I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.
KEEGAN CONNOR TRACY Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether...
IAN LUSTICK Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH 'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
THOMAS HOOD Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.
MICHAEL KORS I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
GRIMES It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.
JAMIE OLIVER Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
FRANCOIS FTNELON Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
FRANCOIS FENELON Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
FRANCOIS FéNELON Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
LEIGH HUNT (JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT) Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC FENELON Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried t...
MIKE KLEPPER It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Dream your own dreams,
be your own person and image,
no matter the extremes.
KAYEC JONES We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extreme...
HENRY LAWSON The year 2005 has been a year of extremes. We had extreme influences, such as hurricanes, on all thr...
DAN MACK Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
TAKERU KOBAYASHI All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extre...
PIERRE CORNEILLE There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
GEORGE ELIOT There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T.S. ELIOT The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contrad...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned so...
FERN SCHUMER CHAPMAN Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing th...
CRISS JAMI Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright l...
JULIAN SCHNABEL Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the .
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy end...
ROBERT W. SERVICE The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.
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