Quotes of Intense - somelinesforyou

“ Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ”

- Paul Fussell

“ Who can be patient in extremes? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. ”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. ”

- Theodore Roethke

“ The extreme limit of wisdom — that is what the public calls madness. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife Coupled together for the sake of strife. ”

- Charles Churchill

“ Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Violent delights have violent ends,And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss, consume. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. ”

- Naomi Klein

“ Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous. ”

- Unknown

“ The young are always in extremes. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Extreme justice is extreme injustice. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. ”

- Ovid

“ Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. ”

- Unknown

“ The unquiet republic of the maze of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Aliens of the Deep. ”

- James Cameron

“ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. - E. F. Schumacher. ”

- E. F. Schumacher

“ Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government. ”

- John Pilger

“ I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent. ”

- Bruce Kent

“ Let us love temperately, things violent last not. ”

- Philip Massinger

“ A History of More Violence'?... I think not. That reminds me of somebody's joke about Gandhi - 'Gandhi 2: Even More Non-Violent.'. ”

- David Cronenberg
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