The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. — John Donne Copy Share Image
I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has… — Peter Norvig Copy Share Image
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t… — Donna Tartt 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
Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree! — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process. — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order,… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories… — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree… — George Packer Copy Share Image
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image