All Quotes

Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does.
‐‐ Laurie Helgoe

Extreme complication is contrary to art.
‐‐ Claude Debussy

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.
‐‐ Christopher McDougall

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
‐‐ Terence

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.
‐‐ Steven Hill

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.
‐‐ John Raleigh Mott

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

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

Extreme programming is an emotional experience.
‐‐ Kent Beck

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
‐‐ Hippocrates

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
‐‐ Lucy Walker

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
‐‐ Michael Tilson Thomas

Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life.
‐‐ Matt Cartwright

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
‐‐ Patricia Ireland

Extremes are dangerous.
‐‐ Jonathan Mayhew

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
‐‐ Thomas Hood

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
‐‐ George Chapman

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
‐‐ Benazir Bhutto

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.
‐‐ George W. Romney

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
‐‐ Barry Goldwater

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
‐‐ Jonas Gahr Store

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
‐‐ Kjell Magne Bondevik

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
‐‐ Leo Rosten

Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.
‐‐ Douglas Conant

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.
‐‐ Neil Peart

Exuberance is better than taste.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
‐‐ Bob Brown

Exxon Mobil and JPMorgan Chase each made more in profits in the first quarter of 2012 alone than the entire state budget of Montana. Without a doubt, multinational corporations like these have the resources to overwhelm the voices of the people.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'
‐‐ David Suzuki

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.
‐‐ Steven Rattner

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.
‐‐ John Zorn

Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.
‐‐ Rita Ora

Eyeliner is a go-to for me, and gold has always been a color that I really like. It's reminiscent of a lion; it's a strong color.
‐‐ Jillian Hervey

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
‐‐ Heraclitus

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
‐‐ Henry Hampton

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
‐‐ Stevie Wonder

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
‐‐ Theophile Gautier

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
‐‐ Andrew Gross

Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawling, smart, entertaining books that are fun above all else; the literary novels written under my real name, Alexi Zentner, are certainly a little more quiet.
‐‐ Alexi Zentner

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
‐‐ Mickey Kaus

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway