Degrees Quotes · Page 112

Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden…

— Sigmund Freud

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

— John Clare

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

— Bob Dylan

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a…

— Alan Ball

What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious…

— Hugo Black

It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way…

— Anna C Salter

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and…

— Richard Rohr

The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena…

— Carl Jung

I think the most challenging aspect was keeping up the degree of physical fitness you need while filming a major leading role…

— Dustin Clare

Even if America tomorrow - and it won't happen overnight - but if we did reduce our demand for gas and natural…

— Thomas Friedman

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that…

— Bob Dylan

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

— Joni Mitchell

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights…

— Franz Bardon

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces…

— David Sanborn

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

— Charles Kennedy

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist…

— Alan Kay

Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight…

— Andrew Schneider

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism, and I have a communications degree. I…

— Sarah

[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as…

— David Quammen

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves…

— Robert Dessaix

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

— Dave Winer

When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

— Iyanla Vanzant

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

— Anonymous

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

— Samuel Johnson