Top 268 Extract Quotes & Sayings

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people.

Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.

It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

An effective leader is able to reach people in their natural environment and extract their experiences and knowledge about the issues that impact them.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

I served in the NYPD for 22 years, and I can vividly recall trying to extract information from people who refused to cooperate.

Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

On February 19th, Dr. Collip found that he was unable to refine the extract by his method and was unable to keep up his supply to the wards. During the following six weeks, or longer, no extract was available for clinical tests. I believe the reason for this to be that Collip, wishing to keep his process a secret, had not kept careful records.

I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.

Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

If those people who come in to join the PSP, hoping to extract something from the party for themselves, I think even if they leave, I will not feel sorry.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

There is a heavy leaning to try and extract information from me, and I always have to clamp down.

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

In a two-sided market, focusing on the customer will increase a business's ability to extract value from the supply side.

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.

Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine ... the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his mind and methods gives us more ammunition to track the next one.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

I will create value for society, rather than extract it.

Decent education in INdonesia is strictly for the elites, and those who are educated are using their knowledge to extract even more from the country, and not to improve it as a whole.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.