Quotes with extent

  • I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.
  • The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
  • Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
  • The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
  • Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
  • No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
  • But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
  • They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
  • It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
  • In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
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  • Anais Nin Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Confucius Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bertrand Russell A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
    The Conquest of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ben Savage A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
    Ben Savage
     
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Jeanne Moreau Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
    Jeanne Moreau
    French actress (1928 - 2017)
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  • Ann Druyan All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Adnan Pachachi An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Bill Gross Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Billy Graham Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • E. M. Cioran Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Alan Cranston I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Richard Nixon I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Alexander the Great I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • John Updike I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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