I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there… — Josef von Sternberg Copy Share Image
Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious… — Vishnudevananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the… — Ellen Muth Copy Share Image
Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen… — Jan Chozen Bays Copy Share Image
The Blue Degrees are but the outer court...of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell,… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I AM (your true self) is not interested in man’s opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the Sanders-Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call,… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
As hard as I try to live with some degree of faith in my life, I just can't believe that the full… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a… — John Maus Copy Share Image
Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. — Clark Coolidge Copy Share Image
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
