Degrees Quotes

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.

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

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.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

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.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to immerse yourself in an intriguing world for a couple of years.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.

I told [McCourt] the season is like a kaleidoscope. Every day it changes one degree and the picture is different.

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

There are no degrees of honesty.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.