Extent Quotes

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. — Hannah Arendt
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages,… — J. G. Ballard
People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand… — Todd Barry
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. — Martha Beck
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. — Joseph Addison
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all… — Napoleon Bonaparte
To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was… — Anthony Bourdain
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen… — Hjalmar Branting
We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent… — John O. Brennan
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. — Geraldine Brooks
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. — David Byrne
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going… — Gabriel Byrne
On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other… — David Cameron
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns:… — Christopher Alexander
I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are… — Steve Carell
You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was… — Helena Bonham Carter
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its… — Jimmy Carter
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio… — Johnny Cash
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. — William Ellery Channing
If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So… — Dick Cheney

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