Top 560 Extent Quotes

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
Leonardo da Vinci
The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.
Madeleine M. Kunin
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
K’naan
The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.
William Godwin
Beck said he didn’t believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
Sheryl Crow
What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
Ben Carson
There’s pressure and it’s nerve-wracking, particularly in the Champions League. So you need to be able to free yourself to a certain extent and have fun in what you are doing.
Julian Nagelsmann
If any female – or male – does something in order to get ‘likes’ on their video or to get fans, they’re being exploited, and they’re actually selling out to a certain extent.
Alissa White-Gluz
I’d say I have no conscience, to a certain extent.
Nick Young
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
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.
Emma Stone
It doesn’t matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Ralph Marston
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they’re as uncomfortable as I am.
Charles Frazier
There was no race – but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.
Herman Kahn
Everyone wants to be funny. Maybe not everyone, but to an extent.
Finn Wolfhard
While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.
Gabrielle Giffords
Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna. I cannot be like them, except to the extent that they are already being like me.
Grace Jones
In ‘Saaho,’ I play a grey character, someone who is complex from within. Devraj is someone who has grown cold over time, to the extent that people might describe him as someone who has died a hundred times.
Chunky Pandey
It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people – to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.
Marc Faber
I think it is important to remind people of the extent

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
Jeffrey Eugenides
When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was ‘neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.’ He must have been an umpire. That’s what umpiring is about.
Doug Harvey
If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don’t think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don’t label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.
Srikumar Rao
I’d had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.
Terri Windling
I don’t think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism.
Charlie Sykes
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
Jock Sturges
I’d always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He’s just recently retired. And I kind of didn’t want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.
Jarvis Cocker
I don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
Bob Woodward
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
Carlisle Floyd
When I hear people flatteringly say, ‘You’re an expert on East Asia…’ I’m certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there’s always something behind the wall in China.
Jenny Shipley
As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection.
Henry Charles Carey
Sometimes when I talk, I sound like a feminist because I get really angry when I hear certain things. For instance, a lot of families don’t really educate their girls much while they educate their sons to the full extent. I think that’s not fair.
Kriti Sanon
I have Kanye’s ego to some extent.
Lil Dicky
I’m not under any illusion that I’m an A-lister; I don’t think I’m even on the alphabet scale. But I’m in people’s houses every day – I’m there when they wake up and there when they go to bed. So people think they know who I am. And, to a certain extent, they do.
Rylan Clark-Neal
There’s lots of money in the Premier League and people think it’s going to filter down. It does to a certain extent, but it’s not all about that.
Dion Dublin
I don’t want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.
Arjun Kapoor
Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
Hans Rosling
Uber, and Airbnb to a different extent, implemented the same battle plan. Bezos is an investor in both companies and, to some degree, has relationships with both CEOs. It is not a surprise that they are heirs to Amazon.
Brad Stone
To the extent that you can find ways where you’re making predictions, there’s no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don’t know the answer to in advance.
Nate Silver
I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn’t it, and I think what I’ve learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.
Eve Ensler
You always have to be very, very careful with statistics. It doesn’t mean that we negate them completely; we just don’t use them to the extent that people might think.
Andre Villas-Boas
My family wasn’t particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
Jackie Speier
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
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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.
Imelda Marcos
It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges – I relish them – I think it’s what make me tick, to a certain extent.
Raymond Kelly
The ‘Playboy’ affiliation will probably stick for the rest of my life to some extent.
Barbi Benton
To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.
Ben Bernanke
We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged… well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we’re not fully merged into the community.
Susan Isaacs
They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers’ work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.
Michael York
My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you live and exist as a Black person in America, at least to white society, to a certain extent, no one is asking where you’re from and where you were born.
Jodie Turner-Smith
Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the ex

Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.
Ben Bernanke
I think life is a little more basic here in Australia. There aren’t so many distractions. People seem to feel they can be kinder with each other here, I think, to a greater extent than in the States.
Jamey Sheridan
Technology is permeating every single thing we do… And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we’re planning for the future.
Marc Morial