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Extending your hand is extending yourself. -- Rod McKuen
Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing. -- Samuel Fuller
Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus. -- Sander Levin
I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history. -- Ellen DuBois
Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters...We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
Extending social and economic development throughout the world and eliminating nuclear weapons from military arsenals are two fundamental prerequisites to replacing the culture of war with a culture of peace, and building true security for all the world's people. -- Douglas Roche
Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting - that's kind of the basis of 'Neon Future,' and that's why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey. -- Steve Aoki
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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener. -- Dave Grohl
With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you. -- Tom Hiddleston
Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks. -- Howard Schultz
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like? -- Michio Kaku
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. -- Aristotle
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps. -- Charles B. Rangel
After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. -- Harry Seidler
The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated. -- Vera Farmiga
Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article. -- Eric Schlosser
People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone. -- Howard Rheingold
Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise. -- Niklas Zennstrom
At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships. -- Mark Zuckerberg
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. -- Dennis Hastert
I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues. -- Christopher Columbus
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole. -- Aubrey de Grey
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. -- Huston Smith
There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves. -- Mike Krzyzewski
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961. -- George Will
Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65. -- Marcia Angell
I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing. -- Rob Bell
The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking. -- Steve King
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.' -- Peter Ackroyd
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing. -- Elaine Stritch
Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection. -- Bharati Mukherjee
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. -- Peer Steinbruck
Build a bridge by extending your hand. -- Ken Poirot
Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space. -- Honore de Balzac
You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works. -- Kurt Meyer
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers. -- Cecile Richards
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable. -- Quentin Crisp
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment. -- Marshall McLuhan
If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms. -- Lord Byron
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness. -- Perry Brass
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely. -- Ben Mendelsohn
The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor. -- Thomas McGuane
No matter how sick your body is, extending Love will reduce your suffering and aid in healing. -- Lee L Jampolsky
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it. -- Ethan Mordden
Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us. -- Sarah Ruhl
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots. -- Knute Nelson
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. -- Alan Lightman
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. -- James Madison
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. -- Nancy Banks-Smith
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. -- Nancy Banks-Smith
Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce. -- Richard Flanagan
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. -- Anthony Burgess
I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families. -- Scott Howell
I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man. -- Conrad Hilton
Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter. -- Oprah Winfrey
I think the way we show love for God is by loving each other, by extending the love that we are. -- Wayne Dyer
Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right. -- John Kador
Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential. -- Harold Bloom
I never thought about extending the promotions. Maybe I've matured but I feel that a shorter and more powerful promotion is better. -- Seungri
We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game. -- Blake Griffin
Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity. -- Marino Marini
There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life. -- Aubrey de Grey
The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum. -- Charles Glover Barkla
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. -- Marianne Williamson
Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives. -- John Scalzi
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades. -- Leslie Parrott
Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections. -- John Dewey
While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom. -- Ronald Reagan
By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective. -- Karen Armstrong
If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. -- George W. Bush
I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling. -- Garth Greenwell
This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed. -- Kenichi Fukui
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings. -- George Saunders
Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes. -- Grace Aguilar
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal. -- Moshe Dayan
You need to eat well, sleep well, and have a roof over your head, but don't go much further than that before extending yourself to others. -- Sakyong Mipham
Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again. -- Abraham Lincoln
Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness. -- Voltaire
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn. -- Naveen Jain
The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war. -- Wernher von Braun
Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue. -- Andrew Jackson
Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way. -- Charles Kennedy
We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism. -- Judith Butler
Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts. -- Michelle Malkin
The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage. -- Andrea McLean
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. -- George Washington
We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others. -- Marianne Williamson
I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas. -- Carolee Schneemann
New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed. -- J. D. Hayworth
I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it. -- Susan Blackmore
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot. -- George Eliot
... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us. -- Diane Setterfield
Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present. -- Barry Mazur
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions. -- Alain de Botton
It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise. -- Edmund Burke
Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come. -- Kano Jigoro
countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they've already been around into the distant future. -- Hal Hershfield
By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does. -- Sharron Angle
A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light. -- Chanakya
Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy....The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma. -- Ralph W. Moss
When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's. -- John Tinker
Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality. -- Laura Wade
With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending from homeless shelters and bad schools to bulging detention centers and prisons. -- Henry Giroux
The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others. -- Benjamin Carson

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