Extent Quotes


KNOWLEDGE is only Power to the Extent that it is... U S E D

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

I think most defense attorneys know to some extent their clients are guilty.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.

Unless you and your mate are united in purpose dedication and loyalty you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.

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.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

It is the experiences the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

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.

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.

Being incarcerated is truly very serious and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

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.

To some extent we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

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.

I like America to some extent.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

Every writer to some extent writes about himself.

I am a stepmother to the fullest extent.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

To a large extent the political walls are crumbling.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

Questions structure and so to some extent predetermine answers.

Within the extent of your knowledge you are right.

To the extent America abandons Israel it abandons itself.

If women only knew the extent of their power!

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

The virtue which we appreciate we to some extent appropriate.

You know to an extent Method acting feels occasionally lazy.

I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic too.

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent

I think everything is fair game to a certain extent.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

To a certain extent I think I've become an animal-rights person.

Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle.

When virtue is at liberty so to some extent is vice.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion.

To some extent each sentence has to be the whole story.

Your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do!

Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

All governments are to a certain extent a treaty with the Devil.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others we lead them.

Value judgments have value only to the extent that they provoke opposition.

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

Art is always to a large extent about need despair and hopelessness.

Film television and to a certain extent theater are modern day libraries.

To some extent the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

I am I-I am powerful but to what extent? I am I.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

The U.S. is to a very unusual extent a business-run society.

Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

To one extent if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is of course.

I got my heroes secondhand from television and movies to a certain extent.

Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose you don't exist

Believing in the project to a certain extent always makes things more affordable.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life one is alone.

External conditions can to a certain extent reduce but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do.

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards to the extent of the Board.

The extent of the atonement is defined by the intent of the atonement.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge is to know that he knows nothing.

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Fear to a great extent is born of a story we tell ourselves...

To the extent we behave with humility to that extent good will result.

To some extent the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it.

Charities are really good. To a certain extent the ones you pick are arbitrary.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

Japa Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.

At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Your behavior determines to some extent the destiny of your nation and your group.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.

Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.

Adaptation seems to be to a substantial extent a process of reallocating your attention.

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

To the extent people can't solve a problem they tend to ignore the problem.

I almost always see what I didn't achieve to a smaller or greater extent.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

So often happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

...climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.

To a large extent people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly we are morally bound to speak.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

Human action can be modified to some extent but human nature can not be changed

There hasn't been one show that we did that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

We have now armed to such an extent as the world has never before seen.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

God is like us to this extent that whatever in us is good is like God.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence but we can never become wholly God.

The NATO forces will to the extent that they have capacity assist the war crimes tribunal.

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

A story only matters I suspect to the extent that the people in the story change.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

To a large extent whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

To a certain extent what I do is play with the world but it's disciplined play.

A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.

You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

I think live-in relations are for people who are not sure and to an extent commitment phobic.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without to some extent being guilty of it.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders to the extent that they work at all on an inattentive public.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

We are in the process of making the world to a certain extent in our own image.

Henry Miller Jack Kerouac Albert Camus Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution that is your service to others.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.

Only the French I guess really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent I might have gone in that direction.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Influence is to be measured not by the extent of surface it covers but by its kind.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

The truth is that from birth on we are to one extent or another a fairly sensual species.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

The grace of God reaches to the furthest extent to those who are prepared to acknowledge their need.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Let us take from Nature only what we really need and try to give back to some extent.

We take our bearings daily from others. To be sane is to a great extent to be sociable.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side but I consider myself more of an independent.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend never as an enemy.

The best vaccine imaginable is only valuable to the extent we get it to everyone who needs it.

Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent we all looked at each other as family.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom who was the daughter of Irish immigrants.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

Love yourself for who and what you are; protect your dream and develop your talent to the fullest extent.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

When you recognize what your talents are a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged.,David W. Orr

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact to some extent they're becoming more diverse like in Europe.

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

All writers I think are to one extent or another damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

I never justify sustain or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel heartless aimless unnecessary war.

The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.

Most likely logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

Socrates demonstrated long ago that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

Everything I write I believe instinctively is to some extent collage. Meaning ultimately is a matter of adjacent data.

Most jazz players work out their solos at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells but we don't know to what extent this happens.

To some extent I draw on what I see around me; in other places I imagine what I write.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

In Iran fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

The times change and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times it will enjoy success.

My popularity my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

To the extent to which we believe in this world we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

To the extent anybody had heard of the [Charles] Kushner name at that point it was a very tarnished name.

One can perceive me only with his limited vision. A droplet can't perceive the extent of the ocean. ~ Aarush Kashyap

I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice.

I think to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch and which therefore to some extent justify private revenge.

We are willing to follow leaders only to the extent we believe they call on our best not our worst.

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

In the end the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent just like my designs.

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman " I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry they are likely to be wrong.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

Without Hitler the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and to a great extent inaccessible.

Nature is very rarely right to such an extent even that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong...

A genuine fast cleanses the body mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility principles and extent of human knowledge à priori.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

When people bully us we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big it was salty and fish lived there.

One is Christianized to the extent that he is a Christianizer. One is evangelized to the extent that he is an evangelist.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game and I get bitter to some extent.

A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible while profit is privatized.

We not only believe what we see to some extent we see what we believe ...The implications of our beliefs are frightening.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible while profit is privatized.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union therefore we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God's love. Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Play intrinsically rewarding doesn't cost anything; as soon as you put a price on it it becomes to some extent not play.

During the Depression years I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed the organization for the unemployed at that period.

I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.

To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot] more than getting together a week beforehand.

Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life but always be open to serendipity.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

Like most human behavior violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

I hated being depressed but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage the full extent of my soul.

Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.

Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.

Climate change poses clear catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done that's going to have a positive impact.

So there you have it the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max

All of science to me everything that we have learned is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

The rocks to a great extent look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

We have severely underestimated the Russians the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us

In the beginning when I was trying to write I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all.

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality' but rather the highest measure of participation.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality the things from which they suffer and die.

Cat people are different to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be with a cat running their lives?

We try to... we are I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm that is both funny and sad I think.

Most customers by the time the musicians reach the second set are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

In the beginning when I was trying to write I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

I prefer writing in the mornings so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics I have no idea. I don't know.

I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!

I definitely like clothes as much as the next girl just not to the extent of people who work in the fashion industry.

I didn't know about the fashion world or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

To the extent math refers to reality we are not certain to the extent we are certain math does not refer to reality.

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that to some extent he has just been getting away with it all these years.

The New Testament and to a very large extent the Old is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

To some extent we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly we are defined by what we attempt.

To the extent that Israel does face threats like from say Hamas or Hezbollah those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people to a rational extent. Whatever they can they will.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.

Ultimately to have a career in movies to a certain extent certainly in England you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

As such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire as well as the living writers you like to read.

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.

To some extent people who are insane are nonconformists and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

Those who violate classification rules will be held responsible to the fullest extent of the law something which we don't do too much anymore.

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.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

When someone dies it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

I think you have to be left-brained to a certain extent to understand science. I can talk about it but I can't do it.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very very helpful in our society if used properly.

I've never gotten over high school to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

He had never realized while Elspeth was alive the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.

One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams to a greater extent.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

We are squandering our wealth in many respects to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions we're also going to squander our freedom.

When you have the most votes of anybody that tells you where the party is. I think the party got lost to a certain extent.

If I were a chocolate I'd eat myself. Seriously we're all interested in ourselves and what other people are saying about us to some extent.

To the extent a person makes invents or thinks something that is new to him he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Radio allowed me to be a creator and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness to some extent I'm a lazy apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

In a film you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

Yeats protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement wrote out of a somewhat protected world and so his work does not touch life deeply.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

It is very important that you express your idealism actively to what ever extent you can for this increases your sense of worth and power...

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

The spiritual law at the core of our being requires that we reach out. We are fulfilled to the extent that we live in relationships.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears because films make us see with our eyes much better.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

It is just completely disgraceful that someone can go to the extent of morphing my face onto someone else's body to create a sensational video.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa the law of love daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

As strange as it may sound our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Over the years our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is to a considerable extent the same as any other fashion.

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth treated as if it were a whole truth.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

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.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension . . he is right . . most of the time.

Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us.

When you're a musician and you go out onstage and you're someone who loves attention you are going to become a role model to some extent.

The physician to the extent he is a physician considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes and his own not at all

There is no choice more intensely personal after all than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us to a large extent who you are.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature he will not be free from blame.

I adore dogs to the extent I think they are much more important than human beings. I like your dog much more than I like you.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you and all it contains.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings that was the extent of it.

Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't you tend to lose.

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life to a certain extent.

We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

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.

Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go.

They knew who I was in Australia in 2006 but not to a great extent. Now with the momentum of a second World Cup it has gone crazy.

Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you he to some extent likes you.

When you attack the enemy your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

To a certain extent yes we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.

You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you to the extent you can to pick out a few heroes

We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

They say that every writer they write about himself and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.

We must be before we can do and we can do only to the extent which we are and what we are depends upon what we think.

I've always been an athletic guy but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

Love is like the lightning and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

This is the age othe common man they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

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.

All of us take an interest to a greater or lesser extent in what people around us look like what they are doing and why they are doing it.

As an actor you want to keep your demons to some extent but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

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.

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

When we look at the budget the budget is bad to a large extent because we have people that have no idea as to what to do and how to buy.

I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.