Degrees Quotes

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.

Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.

In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

A person only likes his friend to the degree he or she relates and connects to his character.

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

I feel like everyone kind of knew someone, like 6 degrees of separation. In Hollywood that is very common.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

With all my traveling around the world I would say that South Vietnam was not as corrupted as people want to talk about it because it is a matter of degrees.

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.

A Catholic priest who’s been sending threatening notes to Conan O’Brien was charged with stalking in the fourth degree. It just goes to show you that people can become obsessed with redheads.

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.