Extremity Quotes

So the domestic novel can accommodate, should accommodate, a lot of extremity. - Nick Hornby

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. - Matthew Henry

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. - Moliere

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety. - Moliere

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. - Thomas Arnold

Man's extremity is God's opportunity. - John Flavel

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. - Soren Kierkegaard

It is in plunging into the stream of life itself and entering into the deepest involvement with the values that confront us, exercising our wills to the utmost-to the breaking point-that we find God in the very extremity of the battle. - Geddes MacGregor

If that means taking it to the furthest extremity of the envelope that I've been given by the reforms that have been agreed, then I would have no hesitation in going to that furthest extremity. - Peter Mandelson

If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic. - June Jordan