Quotes About Extent

Now I had enough pieces to start on the puzzle. I summarized theobservations in a little matrix: Extent of injury is proportional to regeneration Amount of nerve is proportional to regeneration Extent of injury is proportional to current of injury Amount of nerve is proportional to current of injury Ergo: current of injury is proportional to regeneration

the extent of Ronchamp's resemblance to other things is exceptionally broad. Nor is it only an issue of extent. More is at stake. The nature of the building alters drastically when what it resembles cannot be traced back to Le Corbusier's mind; it becomes less predictable and its meaning is less stable.

The arrogance of wealth and the dejection of wretchedness, capital cities of unwonted extent, a lax morality, a vulgar egotism, and a great confusion of interests, are the dangers which almost invariably arise from the magnitude of States.

Online, the extent to which they can exploit freedom of speech is limited only by their own moral codes - which, as we have seen, have been shaped to fit the dominant moral framework of recent decades.

If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.

Friendships can go only so far.

Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

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.

AMPLITUDE  (A'MPLITUDE)   n.s.[amplitude, Fr. amplitudo, Lat.]1. Extent. Whatever I look upon, within the amplitude of heaven and earth, is evidence of human ignorance.Glanville'sScepsis.2. Largeness;

A person has the quantity of SELF-RESPECT only to the extent of his/her worth to trust in altruistic work by the people.

Reel life actors work together in a movie only when their real life characters match to the extent with one another.

The quantity of positivity on earth is just like the minuscule amount of fresh, accessible potable water and the extent of negativity is like the majority volume of ocean water full of salinity.

My range is limited.

To the extent that I can add value and make my country a better place, that's a good thing to do.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

There Was an Old Woman Called Nothing-at-All, Who Lived in a Dwelling Exceedingly Small; A Man Stretched His Mouth to the Utmost Extent, And Down at One Gulp House and Old Woman Went.

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

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it's really not so simple. I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.

The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.

Maybe I should start with a question," he says. "Do you agree that inventory is a liability?" "Of course, everybody knows that. And even if we didn't know it, the last few months have shown to what extent inventory is a liability.

Another expert, David Jablonski, characterizes mass extinctions as "substantial biodiversity losses" that occur rapidly and are "global in extent.

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.

I doubt I'd ever do television to the extent that, say, Gordon Ramsay has.