Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
~By Jean Racine ~
For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
~By David Eddings ~
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
~By Gerald Scarfe ~
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.
~By Laurel Clark ~
Life is extremely complicated.
~By Robert Ludlum ~
I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
~By John Buford ~
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.
~By Sandra Oh ~
The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
~By Ashley Scott ~
We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.
~By Lloyd Banks ~
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
~By Francis Wright ~
Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
~By Ed Harris ~
There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.
~By Ron Chernow ~
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
~By Brad Pitt ~
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
~By Hippocrates ~
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
~By Frank Capra ~
With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.
~By Kelly Hu ~
When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.
~By Charles Sturt ~
I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.
~By Claire Bloom ~
Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
~By Terence ~
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
~By Terence McKenna ~
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
~By Tilda Swinton ~
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
~By Herbert Croly ~
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
~By Brian Eno ~
If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
~By David Cameron ~
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.
~By Francis Crick ~
I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
~By Jane Mayer ~
And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
~By Robert Byrd ~
It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.
~By Martin Fleischmann ~
If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
~By Evan R. Wood ~
That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
~By Alexander Pope ~
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
~By Heinrich Heine ~
I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
~By Arthur H. Sulzberger ~
The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.
~By Robert McChesney ~
I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.
~By Betty Shabazz ~
I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
~By Adam Schiff ~
It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort.
~By Jo Bonner ~
I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.
~By Greg Norman ~
It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.
~By Rick Yune ~
I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.
~By Renny Harlin ~
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.
~By Greg Norman ~
I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well.
~By Donald Evans ~
I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.
~By Mary Garden ~
The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.
~By Jane Asher ~
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
~By Tommy Franks ~
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.
~By Robert Ludlum ~
As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.
~By Tony Parker ~
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
~By Rene Dubos ~
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
~By Roy Hattersley ~
I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
~By Temple Grandin ~
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
~By Rich Lowry ~
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
~By Geddy Lee ~
Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.
~By Ken Russell ~
Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
~By Anita Hill ~
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
~By Shakti Gawain ~
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
~By Martin Bormann ~
Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.
~By Frank Lampard ~
It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
~By Samuel George Morton ~
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
~By Stephen Fry ~
The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.
~By John Olver ~
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
~By Jeremy London ~
We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
~By Rex Stout ~
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
~By John Cusack ~
I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.
~By George Woodcock ~
I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
~By Pete Conrad ~
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