Degrees Quotes

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

As you develop, the people around you develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.

The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.

I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn't even get his degree.

Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

The University of Google is where I got my degree from.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.

We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.