Degrees Quotes

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture  -  especially the innovation culture  -  of a company.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process.

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.

The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong

In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.