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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. -- Samuel Johnson
Extended family is great. If you want to know how extended your family is, just go out and win the lottery. Your phone will be ringing nonstop. And you know I'll call you too, because I'm your fifth cousin on your father's side. -- Jarod Kintz
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. -- Stanislav Grof
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family. -- Sandra Bullock
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. -- Roger Sherman
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. -- William Ellery Channing
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. -- Pope John Paul II
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. -- Harry Seidler
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street. -- Bruce Springsteen
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife. -- Barack Obama
The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship. -- Shiv Khera
You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family. -- Julius Erving
Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York. -- Conor Oberst
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. -- William Whewell
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today. -- Walther Bothe
What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family? -- Duniya Vijay
I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books. -- Connie Nielsen
In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything. -- Alan Huffman
Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family. -- Anushka Sharma
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. -- Noam Chomsky
Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. -- Edwin Starr
There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family. -- Jeffrey Kluger
If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room. -- Gabe Newell
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing. -- S. Jay Olshansky
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family. -- Isabel Allende
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. -- Tom Stoppard
My kids are my No. 1 priority. They're the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities. -- Thalia
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. -- Ezra Taft Benson
In music the present is extended. -- Ned Rorem
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Society is our extended mind and body. -- Alan Watts
My awkward stage extended well into high school. -- Rachelle Lefevre
Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. -- Cynthia Heimel
I came from a huge extended family of musicians. -- Jake Epstein
Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday. -- Don DeLillo
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended. -- Tom Stoppard
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics. -- Emanuel Celler
Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all. -- Billy Bragg
I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls. -- Hannah Simone
For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain. -- Jeff Bezos
I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation. -- Victoria Moran
Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort. -- Brian Tracy
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors. -- Charles Bukowski
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. -- Annie Dillard
The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines. -- Wayne Pacelle
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil. -- Robert Frost
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. -- Charles Dickens
Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation. -- Jane Lynch
Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world. -- Junot Diaz
An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education. -- Geoffrey Canada
I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended. -- Jens Voigt
Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. -- Vannevar Bush
Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal . -- Claire Cook
U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. -- Elliott Abrams
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? -- Don Williams
This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. -- Brian Ferneyhough
It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families. -- Agnes Varda
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? -- Don Williams
Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers. -- Dion Fortune
As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things. -- Coco Chanel
For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate. -- Ani DiFranco
Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance. -- Ronald Reagan
It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families. -- Richard Flanagan
Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. -- Norman Lock
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. -- Wallace Stevens
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. -- Susan Sontag
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting -- Gertrude Stein
I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days. -- Lee Iacocca
Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us. -- Philip Yancey
A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled. -- Carl von Clausewitz
The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand. -- Sheldon Jackson
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort. -- Earl Nightingale
I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended. -- Brad Schneider
It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits... -- James K. Polk
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about. -- Stanley Hauerwas
When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently. -- Josh Homme
That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people. -- George Carlin
That invisible hand of Adam Smith's seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people. -- George Carlin
I think there's a lot of reasons for having an extended primary. I think super PACs play a role. -- Reince Priebus
On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door. -- W.S. Gilbert
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life. -- Amber Benson
Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms. -- Frank Jordan
Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions. -- Anna Kendrick
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve. -- John F. Kennedy
My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success. -- Ellyn Stern
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action. -- Hugh Elliot
Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? -- Douglas Coupland
Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world -- Confucius
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. -- Stephen Gardiner
A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality. -- Anne Bosworth Greene
I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15. -- Ariel Pink
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country. -- Winston Churchill
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world. -- Taliesin
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. -- Eduardo Galeano
Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family. -- Denis Leary
...paranormal phenomena such as apports, prediction, telepathy, dowsing and the like can be explained by an extended physics as potentially real effects. -- Ron Pearson
Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame. -- Bill Watterson
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world. -- Melody Beattie
I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time. -- Hayao Miyazaki
In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics. -- Kevin Kwan
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching. It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters, -- Geoffrey Canada
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years. -- Swami Vivekananda
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters. -- Geoffrey Canada
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective. -- George Ayittey
War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states -- Donald Kagan
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure. -- Alain Badiou
Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead. -- Donna Lynn Hope
Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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