Extent Quotes

1219 Extent quotes by 962 unique authors

He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it. — Audrey Niffenegger
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a… — Saint Augustine
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question… — Ahdaf Soueif
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and… — Vladimir Lenin
We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or… — William Butler Yeats
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you… — Leonard Bernstein
All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know… — Erica Jong
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires… — Baltasar Gracian
This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you… — Daniel Quinn
That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that… — David Foster Wallace
The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down prime… — Anthony Bourdain
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities,… — Albert Einstein
Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming… — Charles Yu
Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play. — Soren Kierkegaard
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has… — J M Coetzee
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up… — Herbert Marcuse
You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature… — Jonathan Franzen
Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small… — Paul Auster
I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell… — Frank Portman
Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond… — Tom Robbins
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all. — William S. Burroughs
We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that… — Inga Muscio
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the… — Pat Conroy
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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