Top 560 Extent Quotes

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
Colin Firth
We are seeing more managed money and, to an extent, institutional money entering the space. Anecdotally speaking, I know of many people who are working at hedge funds or other investment managers who are trading cryptocurrency personally, the question is, when do people start doing it with their firms and funds?
Olaf Carlson-Wee
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, ‘Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.’
Mary Roach
I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren’t true.
Cybill Shepherd
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world… looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.
Sharon Tate
Bands are actively seeking more film involvement – because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.
John Hillcoat
I’m healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn’t have – I mean, I grew up in Montana so… there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I’ve got to go out and make up for lost time.
Jeff Ament
The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.
Adam Conover
While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in – or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of – an economic system we routinely deplore.
Geoff Dyer
You often hear people say ‘Luck is self made.’ I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don’t. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.
Greg Lake
Well, let’s assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.
Eric Shinseki
The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so

The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society – so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.
Bill Kristol
To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what’s most important.
Sheldon Whitehouse
It’s fairly well known that we all hate each other to some extent. ‘Top Gear’ has worked because of a combination of camaraderie and mutual dislike. That’s actually the magic.
James May
Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.
James Cash Penney
I still believe that music is healing to some extent.
Jake Shimabukuro
I think our societies – to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception – have always been struggling to come to terms with archaic traditions.
Yasmine Hamdan
To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn’t processing that.
Aldrich Ames
You can read everybody. It’s not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it’s false.
Charles Olson
We pardon to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
Helena Bonham Carter
Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
Angela Duckworth
The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn’t in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.
Simon Conway Morris
I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that’s about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
Willie Nelson
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
William Ellery Channing
I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.
Keerthy Suresh
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann
The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.
Isoroku Yamamoto
To the extent that anyone anywhere does anything interesting, the question is: ‘Why isn’t Apple doing that; why is Apple behind in that?’ We aren’t the Everything Company. We take on a very small number of things that we do very well, and we find that pretty rewarding.
Craig Federighi
I’m very comfortable in the air. And if you’re really in love with flight, you’re in love to a certain extent with being outside of the body, not grounded. The problem is, if you’re not in your body, you can’t actually feel anything particularly authentically.
Ellen McLaughlin
Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.
Omar Bongo
The first intifada, I was then commander of Central Command, commanding the West Bank, basically. And I know to what extent the first intifada was a popular uprising.
Ehud Barak
Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose the flavour of the colloquial words used otherwise in the regional narrative.
Sudha Murty
Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism – Barack Obama’s victory is a manifestation not of Washington’s need for change, but of America’s. That is not how democracy works in England.
Andrew O’Hagan
And the annual meetings of the League’s Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.
Hjalmar Branting
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It’s less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
Eddie Marsan
I would say that if you don’t feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren’t choreographed.
Leo Kottke
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.
David Bowie
Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.
Christy Turlington
I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way.
Emraan Hashmi
To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we’re also going to be a lot healthier.
Michael Pollan
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
Walter Dean Myers
All my works over the years have been autobiographical

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.
Ruskin Bond
To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.
Chad Hurley
Some people say doing a studio show and doing play by play are two totally different animals. And to an extent, that’s true.
Ernie Johnson Jr.
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
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Aldous Huxley
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
Frederick Soddy
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
Lee Konitz
In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
Victor Francis Hess
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
I feel that to a great extent, the industry is fixated with fair skin, and that needs to change.
Tamannaah
Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.
Robert C. Solomon
To a certain extent, I like fashion, but sometimes I just want to be comfortable and don’t really care.
Gia Coppola