Extended Quotes
349 quotes by 306 authors
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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which…
— Thornton Wilder
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New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to…
— Bill Maher
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The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to…
— Bret Anthony Johnston
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than…
— Camille Paglia
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I’ve worked nonstop for 31 years. I’ve counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I’ve never really taken an extended…
— Lance Burton
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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that…
— Donna Tartt
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Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in…
— Gary Miller
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Man unquestionably has impressive powers... But after all our obedience and good works, we cannot be saved from the effects of our sins without the…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding…
— Warren Buffett
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Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our…
— Carl Rogers
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Duane Allman inspired the group to explore the extended jam format that was already a staple of the Allman Brothers act. Moreover, his ferocious slide…
— Unknown Author
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I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected.…
— Carolyn Murphy
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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
— Harry Seidler
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A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another",…
— Unknown Author
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Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
— Brian Tracy
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Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained…
— Fred Hoyle
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When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching. It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters,
— Geoffrey Canada
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Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
— Samuel Johnson
Who Wrote These Extended Quotes
306 authors contributed a total of 349 Extended Quotes, led by these top contributors: