We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to… — Eric Chivian Copy Share Image
Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the… — Ted Shackelford Copy Share Image
The last degree of love is when He gave Himself to us to be our Food; because He gave Himself to be… — Bernardino of Siena Copy Share Image
And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
This is a massive crisis for the press, and the degree now that the press revs up its scrutiny and its opposition… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's… — Jeff Melvoin Copy Share Image
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
All the things that we've done as a species have had a limited scope. We're talking about melting the ice caps, raising… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents…Anybody who has to live with the people, who… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count… — Gwen John Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale.… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
I'm romantic to some degree, if I really like somebody. I'm more romantic if there's someone that I like than I am… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image