Extent Quotes

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. (Aristotle)
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are. View quote
Imelda Marcos
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. View quote
John Updike
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. View quote
John Updike
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves. View quote
John Venn
We pardon to the extent that we love. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
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. View quote
Horace Walpole
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. (Christopher Isherwood)
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. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. View quote
Hannah Arendt
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. View quote
Joseph Conrad
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. View quote
Sigmund Freud
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. View quote
Elihu Root
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. View quote
John Forbes Nash
Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. View quote
J. G. Ballard
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. (Wallace Stevens)
It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction. View quote
Stephen Harper
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. View quote
Joseph Addison
Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness. View quote
Ann Druyan
Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way. View quote
Jesse Ventura