Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.
Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of human excellence and beauty and, just as crucially, filth and squalor.
We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.
The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.
America is a funny place; it’s a land of extremes, I think. There’s fantastic, and there’s gobsmackingly dreadful. In every realm you could imagine, they do extremes very well or badly, depending on how you look at it.
I think I’ve had extremes of being unable to exist outside of my own head, and then I only am existing for other people… There’s a middle ground where I should take care of myself and other people.
The French don’t think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they’re offended by extremes of inequality.
The reality is that ‘Westworld’ is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy – be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of ‘opposing truths at extremes’ is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.
True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.
I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.
At Real Madrid, everything gets taken to extremes, as much for the good things as the bad things, so you have to adapt to the way that the press and the fans live through different situations.
I totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I’ll run a couple of extra miles. I think it’s all about balance and not getting into extremes with dieting and exercising. Having a healthy attitude is important, too!
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you’d have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, ‘Am I happy about this?’ Yeah. I wouldn’t have done anything any better.
I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.
Extremes are dangerous.
The political system loves the extremes, it doesn’t so much show a lot love for the moderates.
Orissa is cursed by the two tragic extremes of drought and famine.
I think, no matter what, when you’re writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I’ve spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
I’m a person of extremes. I’m usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they’re not at a 10 for happy, they’re not happy.
I don’t believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren’t meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
I really swung between the extremes. From the danger of being ostracised by the society, I almost overnight found myself as virtually the darling of the millions.
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don’t have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Don’t avoid extremes, and don’t choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities – that is the art, the secret of balancing.
To lose one’s self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that’s the same in dance music.
To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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