| "Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air." »Leonard Bernstein |
| "To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." »Spiro Agnew |
| "I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone." »John Updike |
| "Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it." »Samuel Smiles |
| "To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know." »Alexis Carrel |
| "My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants." »J. Brotherton |
| "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." »Confucius |
| "I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true." »Derek Curtis Bok |
| "My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger." »Aldous Huxley |
| "The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control." »Allen Ginsberg |
| "The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us." »Anna James |
| "The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent." »Smiley Blanton |
| "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." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves." »Eric Hoffer |
| "An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign." »Russell Smith |
| "Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward." »Dr. Viktor E Frankl |
| "Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures." »Henry Anatole Grunwald |
| "Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence." »Robert D. Richardson |
| "In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "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." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." »Anais Nin |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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