68 Quotes About Extremes

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means.

How can I even think of such a fate . . . Better to commit murder.

You put on a mask. But don't you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes

Everything is good in moderation. Even moderation.

Nothing is more self-limiting than going to extremes.

For the first half-billion years, Earth was a molten inferno some 8,000 degrees Celsius—hotter than today's sun. Scientists call this violent era the Hadean, from the Greek word Hades, or hell. Time and again, the young Earth built up a crust, only to see it incinerated by storms of flaming meteors.

The Gobi wasn't completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some of those forms of life weren't the kind that Anna wanted to admire too closely.

Any thought carried to its extreme becomes an absurdity.