Degrees Quotes · Page 3

By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the…

— Charles R. Morris

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

— Emmanuel Levinas

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and…

— Socrates

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

— Marshall Goldsmith

There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way…

— Thomas L. Dumm

I was trying to hold up a mirror to this country, to reflect the past years or so, and the varying degrees…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death.…

— Larry Dossey

[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in…

— Paul Tillich

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our…

— Christiaan Huygens

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to…

— Daniel J. Evans

This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows,…

— Terence McKenna

Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing…

— John Travolta

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that…

— Robertson Davies

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

— Michel de Montaigne

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a…

— Elie Wiesel

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions…

— John Maynard Keynes

I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my…

— Wynn Bullock

If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty…

— Julia Child

There are degrees of incompatibility, and there are more factors relevant to upholding democracy and human rights than the operation of neoliberal…

— Richard A. Falk

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place…

— William Blake

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories…

— Justin Chadwick

I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work,…

— Patrick Fabian

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

— Cardinal Richelieu