Extremes Quotes - Page 2
Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.
James C. Dobson (2010). “Love Must Be Tough: New Hope for Marriages in Crisis”, p.203, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.62
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
"The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe".
I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.457, Penguin
1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.3.
"French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré". Book by Martin Cooper (p. 136), 1951; later quoted in "Debussy and Wagner", book by Robin Holloway (p. 207), 1979.