Extent Quotes

1219 Extent quotes by 962 unique authors

It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this… — J. R. Moehringer
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but… — Stephen Hawking
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. — Pema Chodron
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the… — Theodore Roosevelt
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to… — Sam Harris
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right. — Ayn Rand
Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the… — Bernhard Schlink
This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there. — Haruki Murakami
He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into… — Ann Patchett
That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone… — Nicole Krauss
So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max — James Patterson
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire
The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I… — Annie Dillard
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some… — Haruki Murakami
Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when… — Muriel Barbery
I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored. — Kate Ross
If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself… — Mortimer Adler
I measured love by the extent of my jealousy. — Graham Greene
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers… — Orson Scott Card
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their… — Yukio Mishima
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty… — Gene Stratton-Porter
The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is… — Jonathan Coe

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