Extent Quotes

1219 Extent quotes by 962 unique authors

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not… — Joshua Foer
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile. — Unknown Author
Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public. — James Cash Penney
What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power? — Unknown Author
Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve. — Brit Hume
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives? — Unknown Author
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all. — John Fogerty
Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on… — William Devane
If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the… — Eckhart Tolle
It occurred to me that when a person chooses certain behaviors, they have complete, 100% control over their choices. But once the behavior is chosen,… — Unknown Author
Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have… — Rachel Maddow
Love yourself, for who and what you are; protect your dream and develop your talent to the fullest extent. — Joan Benoit
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a… — Alan Rickman
Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to… — Unknown Author
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are,… — Thomas Huxley
I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart… — Terri Windling
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. — Steve Squyres
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent… — Javier Perez de Cuellar
The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then… — Thurman Arnold
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese… — Bernardino Ramazzini
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. — Brad Bird
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent… — Winston Churchill
The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number… — Scott Glenn
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants… — James Cook

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