Top 100 Extent Quotes
#1. No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
Thomas Jefferson
#2. The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with and to work within the tenets of orthodox theory.
Paul Ormerod
#3. Even if we acknowledge the existence of distinct and irreducible perspectives, the wish for a unified conception of the world doesn't go away. If we can't achieve it in a form that eliminates individual perspectives, we may inquire to what extent it can be achieved if we admit them.
Thomas Nagel
#4. So inconsiderable a thing is fortune in respect of human nature, and so insufficient to give content to a covetous mind, that an empire of that mighty extent and sway could not satisfy the ambition of two men;
Plutarch
#5. It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.
James D. Watson
#6. Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.
Stephen A. Diamond
#7. The heart is far more than just another stolidly stupid pump - it is a responsive, dynamic participant in the enterprise of life, capable of adaptation, accommodation, and, to some extent, repair.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#8. States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power
Noam Chomsky
#9. How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can achieve is the extent of your ability to define with precision that which you desire.
Tony Robbins
#10. Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.
Charles R. Swindoll
#11. It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.
Kathy Sierra
#12. Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably.
Robert Nozick
#13. The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.
{Cuvier on Joseph Banks}
Georges Cuvier
#14. I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Plutarch
#15. The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It's a valid critique - and one that Broad City has increasingly interrogated, suggesting, especially in later seasons, the extent of Abbi and Ilana's privilege.
Anne Helen Petersen
#16. An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.
Russell Smith
#17. I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
Eddie Vedder
#18. Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us.
Joan Didion
#19. International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.
Eknath Easwaran
#20. 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 Babington Macaulay
#21. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
Walter Rauschenbusch
#22. Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is
Larry Wall
#23. The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.
Thomas Berry
#24. I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.
Roone Arledge
#25. If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#26. The test of observance of Christ's teachings is our consciousness of our failure to attain an ideal perfection. The degree to which we draw near this perfection cannot be seen; all we can see is the extent of our deviation. LEO TOLSTOY The
Philip Yancey
#27. To some extent, at least, you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#28. Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise, and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.
David Josiah Brewer
#29. Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
Alexander Dubcek
#30. Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.
Aristotle.
#31. To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)
Paul Newman
#32. I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.
Shawn Johnson
#33. But the only thing of value the church has to offer is the gospel. I believe that one result of the emerging Experience Economy will be a longing for authenticity. To the extent that the church stages worldly experiences, it will lose its effectiveness.
Skye Jethani
#34. You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
John Ortberg
#35. Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.
William Devane
#36. Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
Paul Ryan
#37. 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 a man groping his way in the darkness.
Alberto Giacometti
#38. With my guy, every now and then, he puts on a mask and does that, but he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he's fun to hang around with. I think that's unusual, to that extent.
James Frain
#39. Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.
Elizabeth Bowen
#40. The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
Deborah Tall
#41. Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order ... perfection, prosperity and peace.
Marianne Williamson
#42. The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.
Mark Helprin
#43. I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.
Jeff Goldblum
#44. The preceding collection of stories about Einstein the young boy demonstrates the remarkable extent to which his most characteristic personal traits were native rather than acquired.
Abraham Pais
#45. I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
Freeman Dyson
#46. The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed.
Robert Dallek
#47. Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#48. If you create a relationship that's based, to some extent, on support and money, it creates an entirely different relationship because people are going to be behaving in certain ways to please you, and not in their natural way.
Anne Makepeace
#49. Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God's love. Be missionaries of God's tenderness!
Pope Francis
#50. I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.
Emile Durkheim
#51. Living, in the case of animals, thus means getting on, and any ability, whether physical or intellectual, is of importance to the extent that it makes such getting on successful.
Frank Morton McMurry
#52. It's no longer necessary to slave over the vocals. I don't sing the lyrics until I write them, and singing is the very last thing I do. I record the entire track, and then I worry about lyrics and vocals. The music will suggest where the words are going to a certain extent.
Todd Rundgren
#53. Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?
Stephanie Mills
#54. We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. I think anyone doing an interview is to some extent on show. And therefore, we always want to put on our best face.
Cherie Blair
#56. Obviously the Internet has become something of a leveler; it was once a luxury to be able to reach a mass audience, and now anybody can do it, to some extent.
Alonso Duralde
#57. America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.
Melissa Fay Greene
#58. I think that too ended up affecting a lot of the different research questions that I later asked was really was about well to what extent ... How do we balance choice as possibility and choice as limitations?
Sheena Iyengar
#59. I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.
Chico Hamilton
#60. I have been ...
To every depth of my heart
To every height of my mind
To every extent of my world
I see only one name
It's yours ...
Heenashree Khandelwal
#61. I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
Victoria Smurfit
#62. I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
Carlisle Floyd
#65. All the land surface of Trantor, 75,000,000 square miles in extent, was a single city. The population, at its height, was well in excess of forty billions.
Isaac Asimov
#66. Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
Ada Leverson
#67. The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
Steven Squyres
#68. I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.
Charles Comiskey
#69. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.
John Steinbeck
#70. Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#71. The popular contemporary wisdom that a liberal arts education is outmoded is true only to the extent that social equality, liberty, and worldly development of mind and character are outmoded and have been displaced by another set of metrics: income streams, profitability, technological innovation.
Wendy Brown
#72. The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
Swami Sivananda
#73. The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.
Benjamin Graham
#74. Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
Abraham Lincoln
#75. To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.
Cesare Beccaria
#76. There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.
Gregory Peck
#77. Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
Damon Galgut
#78. A disturbed fan used that information and showed up at my front door, made his way INTO MY HOUSE, and afterward, proceeded to obsess over me online in an erratic and abusive way to the extent that I was terrified he would show up again and do something violent.
Felicia Day
#79. I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.
Craig Benson
#80. I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.
Chaim Potok
#81. I feel like I've had a number of roles in suits, which is hilarious to the people who know me, because it couldn't be further from who I am and what I wear. I think that Aaron Sorkin is, to a certain extent, responsible.
Clark Gregg
#82. The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.
John Locke
#83. To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really the excesses of youth and it's something that everyone goes through to some extent. Or if they don't, they should do.
Derek Ridgers
#84. The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
Larry MacPhail
#85. Your thought determines your mood and to a great extent, your mood determines your thought, though sometimes it is hard to determine someone's thought by the mood of the person! When the mind changes, something changes! When the mind changes, the face changes! Change your mind and see!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#86. My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
Gabriel Mann
#87. The source of all the problems in the world is ignorance - the limited view point or narrow mindedness or the conditioned state of mind. As the individual learn the fundamental truths of life and move up in the scale of life, to that extent his/her ignorance go away and become open/free.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#88. Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
Aleksandar Hemon
#89. What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of a truth less richly represented by the original facts?
Edward St. Aubyn
#90. The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Jean Genet
#91. The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision.
John James Audubon
#92. When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of Faraday, one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time.
Ernest Rutherford
#93. All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.
Herbert Marcuse
#94. The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.
Ellen Key
#95. Our beliefs are the lens through which we see the world. They are the glasses we put on in the morning, which provide the patterns we see. As we become more self-aware, we can identify our patterns, and then, to the extent we desire, change our lenses.
Patrick Sweeney
#96. To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers
Albert Bandura
#97. Suspicion is healthy in our profession - but only to an extent. I'd rather trust my men than worry about what will happen if they turn on me." "That sounds foolish," Vin said. "Is happiness foolish?
Brandon Sanderson
#98. Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.
David Shields
#99. Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.
Jeffrey Brown
#100. To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.
Henry David Thoreau
