Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest,… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
