Extent Quotes

1219 Extent quotes by 962 unique authors

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have… — C.S. Lewis
Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our… — William Crookes
With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the… — Frederick Lenz
Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong... — James Whistler
A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after… — Michel de Montaigne
It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to… — John Henry Newman
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well… — Havelock Ellis
The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they… — Ernst Gombrich
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and… — Eric Hoffer
Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make… — May Sarton
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's… — Ronald Reagan
One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the… — Homer
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to… — Bertrand Russell
The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult… — Alan Greenspan
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower… — Thomas Sowell
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them… — Robert Hugh Benson
The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always… — Madame de Stael
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. — Charles Ives
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that… — Harold Rosenberg
We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet… — Clement Greenberg
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of… — Alberto Giacometti
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work… — Philip Guston
With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives.… — Bob Hayes
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. — Wassily Kandinsky

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