Words matter. These are the best Extent Quotes from famous people such as William James, Diana Wynne Jones, Gabriel Marcel, William Wilberforce, Kharaj Mukherjee, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there’s always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
In Raja Chanda’s ‘Ley Halua Ley,’ I essay Locket’s miser husband, who is suspicious of his beautiful wife. He is ready to go to any extent to protect his wife. The script of this film is hilarious.
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
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.
Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.
An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.
I was born and raised Catholic, so it’s in my blood. I don’t go to church… I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.
I like being boring to a certain extent. I don’t have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it’s over, I don’t have to be that.
I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you’re somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.
I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Lucasfilm looks out for ‘Star Wars.’ What are the values inherent in ‘Star Wars’ that we want to protect? It’s fragile to a certain extent in that it’s a single IP.
If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.
The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a, to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom.
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.
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.
A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.
To a large extent, equity investors put their hard-earned capital into the hands of management and count on it being employed skilfully and honestly. When that doesn’t happen, losses typically follow.
To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that’s about the extent of it.
I don’t hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn’t make a whole lot of difference to what extent we’re involved in propping up those governments.
When you’re a young kid and you come into the NHL, you’re given money and fame, to an extent, especially in Boston.
Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?
You have to have talent to some extent – I certainly hope I have talent – but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.
There’s obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified.
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.
I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, ‘Oh, you’ll get a much better education in life.’ I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I’m working with.
My main aim in ‘Gandhi’ was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi’s movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.
You’ve got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.
Every religion curbs women rights to some extent. Some countries acted against religions and put a ban on wearing hijab, which was also a violation of human rights.
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.
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.
I live every day to its fullest extent and I don’t sweat the small stuff.
Children… are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God’s children.
If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.
The idea of ‘climate’ – in quotation marks – is never going to be the issue. It’s always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put ‘climate’ on the ballot, that’s never going to move the needle.
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don’t know to what extent this happens.
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words – and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
The enjoyment of work – to the extent that you have any – is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.
