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Extract the eternal from the ephemeral. -- Charles Baudelaire
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' -- Albert Schweitzer
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. -- William Cowper
Experience is the extract of suffering. -- Arthur Helps
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. -- Victor Hugo
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. -- Benjamin Haydon
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. -- Jerry Saltz
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong. -- James A. Forbes
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. -- J. Irwin Miller
Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers. -- Sloane Crosley
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year. -- Daniel Kahneman
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
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. -- Felix Frankfurter
We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people to keep the American people safe. -- Michele Bachmann
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. -- Herbert Gold
In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere. -- Evgeny Morozov
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. -- Paracelsus
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it. -- Toni Cade Bambara
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described. -- George Ripley
Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots. -- Stacy Schiff
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. -- Cameron Sinclair
In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators. -- John Battelle
Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner - methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal. -- Thomas Friedman
For thousands of years, long before there was such a thing as a science of chemistry, people were fascinated by plants, because they knew that plants contained substances that could affect people. Coffee will keep you awake. Tobacco contains something that will calm your nerves. Foxglove contains an extract that'll affect your heart. -- Gregory Petsko
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I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish -- Burt Lancaster
I will create value for society, rather than extract it. -- John C. Bogle
Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life. -- Carl Jung
The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving. -- Sigmund Freud
Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it. -- Albrecht Durer
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it. -- Albrecht Durer
I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize. -- Herbie Hancock
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil. -- Amish Tripathi
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport. -- Eike Batista
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art. -- Theophile Gautier
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless -- Haruki Murakami
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. -- John Muir
I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations. -- Jason Gann
Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions. -- Barack Obama
I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people. -- Hope Powell
It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together. -- Girl Talk
Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire. -- Sara Genn
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry. -- Adolf von Baeyer
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service. -- Barry Ritholtz
Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground. -- Ivan Krastev
A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique. -- Giorgio Armani
Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back. -- Jack Canfield
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. -- Kat Duff
I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice. -- Claudia Schiffer
Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy. -- Marci Shimoff
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. -- Honore de Balzac
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. -- Virginia Woolf
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit. -- Jeff Smith
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane -- Hope Edelman
I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth. -- Henry David Thoreau
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world. -- Max Lucado
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. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. -- Terry Pratchett
Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his mind and methods gives us more ammunition to track the next one. -- Robert Ressler
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. -- Plutarch
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. -- Rumi
There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists. -- Stefan Molyneux
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 -- Kenneth E. Boulding
The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement -- John Dewey
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. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word. -- Mina Loy
Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids? -- Samuel Laman Blanchard
A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning. -- John Dewey
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. -- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. -- Leon Redbone
Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract. -- Ronald M. Shaich
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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. -- Alexandre Dumas
Really Love itself is the extract of the whole Knowledge, it is written that in last synthesis the Wisdom can be reduced into Love, and the Love into Happiness. -- Samael Aun Weor
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. -- Beth Orton
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent. -- Karl Marx
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love -- Khalil Gibran
I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me. -- Shunroku Hata
You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession. -- George W. Bush
To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows. -- Barbara Holland
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. -- Thomas Mellon
They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more. -- Margaret Kennedy
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle. -- Barry Eisler
Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor. -- Sally Schneider
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. -- Sonya Levien
Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. -- William Shenstone
Torture when inflicted on childrenbecomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensiblepractice to extract information, the case for inflicting pain and abuse upon childrenproves impossible to support. -- Henry A. Giroux
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them. -- Koren Zailckas
Some printed pages are medical plasters to extract pain, others are tourists' tickets out of boredom or loneliness to exhilarating adventures, still others are diplomas for promotion and drilling ideas into a quick-step. -- Molly Guptill Manning
Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that. -- Phil Plait
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel. -- Marcel Proust
When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from. -- Alan Palomo
I hope my greatest contribution will be to try to extract principles of truth that will cause us to live our lives in a more effective way and to advance Jesus' purpose in the world. -- Erwin McManus
The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. -- Henry David Thoreau
If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today. -- Orison Swett Marden
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere. -- Bill Vaughan
Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon. -- Nnamdi Azikiwe
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he only who knows how to accommodate himself to their returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows how to live. -- Laurence Sterne

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