The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.
We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.
We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.
My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.
Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the same time, they have refused the right to install themselves in absolute knowledge. They taught not this knowledge, but its becoming in us, not the absolute but, at most, our absolute relation to it, as Kierkegaard said. What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.
Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for the Motherland and patriotism. Patriotism in the best sense of that word. Incidentally, I think that to a certain extent, to a significant extent, this is also attributable to the American people.
The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.
The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of Islam, and is identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam, at the same time this also gives him the, it has the psychological effect of giving him the incentive as an individual to develop all of his dormant potential to its fullest extent.
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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.
I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son. . . . The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.
Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.
We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.
The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.
I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.