Degrees Quotes

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.

You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people.

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the arrangement we have potentially.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.