Extremes Quotes - Page 16

• You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even? (Dev)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sarcasm, Want, Tone

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Why are you helping me? (Fury) I don’t know. Apparently I’m having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupidity, Helping, Moments

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• I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Mother, Dog

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• ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

  Chris Crutcher

  Educational, Heart, Men

  Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf

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• Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.

  Ilona Andrews

  Jealous, Viruses, Prejudice

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds: A Kate Daniels Novel: 4”, p.42, NYLA

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• You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Machines, Chickens

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.

  James Finn Garner

  Girl, Stress, Riding

  "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times (Little Red Riding Hood - A Politically Correct Fairy Tale)". Book by James Finn Garner, 1994.

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• Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  New Beginnings, Helping, Inebriation

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.114, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Baby, I don’t feel pain. Ever. (Talon) Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine) It’s a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind and makes it weary. (Talon) But without pain, you can’t have joy. It’s the balance that makes us appreciate the extreme. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Pain, Sunshine

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• Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.

  Jon Krakauer

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

  Walter Benjamin

  Order, Balance, Balancing Act

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Sexy, Thinking

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• He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

  Elena Ferrante

  Book, Character, Way

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.3, Penguin

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• Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Strong, Passion

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.' There was an uncomfortable silence. 'That sounds...extreme,' Jason ventured.

  Rick Riordan

  Crush, Order, Silence

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• Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

  Robert Fulghum

  Spiritual, Love Is, Roots

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• It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

  Gilles Deleuze

  Vanity, Depth, Draws

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.249, A&C Black

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• Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Boredom, Bored, Antidote

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• What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Thinking, Importance

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• Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Men, Past, Oxygen

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

  William Styron

  Self, Way, Painful

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.

  Deb Caletti

  Fate, Love Is, Clouds

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• Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, Half, Failing

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.165, Random House

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• [John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

  Keith Richards

  Standards

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.288, Hachette UK

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• Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Sadness, People

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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