Top 1200 Certain Extent Quotes & Sayings

Most people would accept that we are, to a certain extent, products of our environment.

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

We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

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

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

That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.

I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

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

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

I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

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

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

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

My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and I wasn't supposed to come to Manhattan.

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

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

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.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

I try to follow certain rules. Nothing in Élysée Palace should become habitual, because routine lends one a deceptive feeling of security. You begin not noticing certain things and lose your focus on what's important. Uncertainty and change keep you attentive. This place and, to a certain extent, my office, help me avoid developing habits.

I'd say I have no conscience, to a certain extent.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

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

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

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

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

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

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent.

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.

Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.

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

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 would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.

To a certain extent, I like fashion, but sometimes I just want to be comfortable and don't really care.

If I spend time visualising smashing someone, it's good to a certain extent. But when I overdid it, it put me under pressure.

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

Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.

There are a lot of areas where we cooperate, fight against ISIL, for example. Here, Germany was able to contribute to a certain extent in certain areas.

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.

I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a religion. But, I think the same is true, to a certain extent, of secular liberalism as well.

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.

Basic mobile phones can circumvent lack of broadband access, but only to a certain extent.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

I am advocating a weak yen to a certain extent.

For me, it's not a struggle to go out and play hockey. Under pressure, I feel it to a certain extent... but, I'm not scared of it.

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

What was so lovely about 'O.J.' and 'This Is Us' to a certain extent is that I got a chance to surprise people.

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

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

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

I think everything is fair game to a certain extent.

To a certain extent, people's behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.

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

We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent.