Degrees Quotes

I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

[Degree in English] gave me a little more self-confidence, to know that I'd managed to complete something like that.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

The loves of men but vary in degrees-- They find no new expression for the flame.

I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.

She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Each of us is affected by what happens to the other. Just as our movement interact on the field, so our lives interact to a certain degree. This is what is so great about being a member of a team.

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

It is because people exist in varyinig degrees of the dream.

In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.