Degrees Quotes · Page 21

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

— Don Adams

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

— George Iles

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

— John Suckling

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

— Eckhart Tolle

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

— Munshi Premchand

The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

— Bear Grylls

You can do law with a law degree. You can't do anything else.

— Rich Fulcher

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

— Alfred de Vigny

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a…

— Diablo Cody

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ…

— Lysander Spooner

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

— Douglas Booth

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents…

— Alan Brennert

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

— John of the Cross

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as…

— Laura Wilkinson

Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that…

— Gary Zukav

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death…

— Michel de Montaigne

Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but…

— Ernst Haeckel

So many times we look for those things in life we can measure… The college degree, the money we earn, the success…

— Samuel S. Sumner

I think people always appreciate somebody else's informed educated opinion. To the degree that anybody with a computer can offer a journalistic…

— Seth Green

It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you…

— Gracia Martore

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze…

— Bernard Berenson

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was…

— Frank Herbert

Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate…

— Karl Donitz

A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are…

— Charles Koch

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend…

— Beth Bailey

Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the…

— Stanislaw Lem

I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I…

— Jimmy Carter

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act…

— Robertson Davies

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an…

— Justus von Liebig

There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It…

— Jean Piaget

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

— Noah Baumbach

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

— Alexander Gordon Smith

It got up to 94 degrees today – that's pretty good at my age.

— Bob Monkhouse

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

— Rex Harrison

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

— Gerald Stern

I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.

— Paul S. Kemp

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

— Sivananda

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

— Zooey Deschanel