The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
Howard Staunton

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
Ferdinand de Saussure

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
Andrew Eldritch

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.
Henry Mayhew

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.
Stan Jones

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas B. Macaulay

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
Kelly Miller

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
Mary McAleese

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Jean Genet

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
Peter Fraser

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

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

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
James C. Maxwell

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
Warren Christopher