The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.
I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist. ' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.
The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. . . The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.
. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence. . .
Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.
All extremes are dangerous.
Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
Im a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.
There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle. And the same thing with math, and the same thing with art. You'll find people who are geniuses, or prodigies at the far end of the bell shaped curve, and I think you will find some of the acquired savants in that category who happened to have been endowed with that kind of talent, which explains why not everyone becomes an acquired savant.
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.
Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.
[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.
Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.