Extensive Quotes

195 quotes by 180 authors

I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script… — Christine Jones
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the… — Walter Benjamin
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the… — Arjun Makhijani
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of… — Noam Chomsky
The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it… — Walther Bothe
If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption. — Thomas Jefferson
The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes. — Michael Steinhardt
What an invaluable handbook! Lori A. May has done her research, knows her stuff, and, whats best, lets the programs speak for themselves through her… — Molly Peacock
Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds,… — William Bagley
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a… — Thomas Paine
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but… — Ingmar Bergman
One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research. — Gretchen Rubin
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so… — Zhuangzi
When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger,… — J C Ryle
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he… — Abraham Lincoln
At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent… — Vincent Van Gogh
There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally… — Robert Fortune
The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning… — Samuel Johnson
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches… — Sigmund Freud

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