To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Gold like the sun which melts wax but hardens clay expands great souls.

Of every ten persons who talk about you nine will say something bad and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting off a little water.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Extremes are dangerous.

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

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.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.