Degrees Quotes · Page 10

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

— Carmen Ejogo

There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.

— Anonymous

To be successful in life what you need is education.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

— John Selden

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

— Michel de Montaigne

To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

— James Madison

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

— Tyler Perry

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

— Ayn Rand

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

— Albert Einstein

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had…

— Bruce Dickinson

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

— Francis Fukuyama

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

— Baron de Montesquieu

I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

— Paula Scher

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

— John Wesley

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

— Richard Helms

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I had known, number one, that there would never be any role for me in the leadership capacity with SCLC. Why? First,…

— Ella Baker

Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just…

— Erik Weihenmayer

Some people talk of writer's block - you got all of these ideas but nothing happens. The truth is, there's no such…

— Jon Fratelli

I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps…

— David Levithan

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on…

— Jack Nicholson

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my…

— Jamie Wyeth

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that…

— Emma Goldman

Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;…

— William Shakespeare

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield…

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and…

— Mary Somerville

Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius:…

— Charles R. Morris

It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,…

— C. S. Lewis

An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first…

— Katie MacAlister

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“They become what they think. We will become [only] by [degrees].”

— Swami Vivekananda

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

— Noam Chomsky

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

— Scott Westerfeld

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

— Jean Racine

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

— Vinod Khosla

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

— E. W. Howe