Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Crisp

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

Jane Austen

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Jeffrey Schloss

There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,

Blaise Pascal

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Aristotle

The best things are placed between extremes.

Sloane Crosley

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Tommy Mottola

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Saint Augustine

Custom is second nature.

Sharon Rainey

I need people to sort and pack ? and we need help filling out customs forms. I had one volunteer, June Fox, come in last week and she wrapped 11 packages in under 25 minutes. That's the type of workers we need.

George Balle

The Lansdowne was selected to ferry the Japanese ministers and generals from the Customs House Dock in Yokohama to the Missouri.

Steve Glynn

You can stuff a painting in a suitcase and find out in the customs line you owe 5 percent duty.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Li Rongmei

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.

Winston Churchill

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Mike Ruddock

I'm gutted he's out for the Six Nations but more gutted for Kevin.

Friedrich Engels

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

Lionel Jospin

I remain attached to my nation.

Lord Byron

The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.