Extremity Quotes

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

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.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

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

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.