Degrees Quotes · Page 47

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

— G. H. Hardy

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if…

— Anthony Eden

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of…

— Robert Genn

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to…

— David Leavitt

I told [McCourt] the season is like a kaleidoscope. Every day it changes one degree and the picture is different.

— Ned Colletti

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every…

— David Bezmozgis

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there…

— Saint John Chrysostom

And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no…

— William James

The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may…

— Henry James

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from…

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

But the web is to some degree a broth of psychopaths seeing what they can get away with in circumstances of anonymity.…

— William Monahan

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot…

— Russell Kirk

Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers,…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

You do hear from people that the things that you have done or projects you have worked on have made an impact…

— Bridgit Mendler

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say…

— Aristotle

The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human…

— Andre Breton

When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the…

— Richard P. Feynman

The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree…

— Soren Kierkegaard

My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate…

— Ken Wilber

I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from…

— John C. Maxwell

I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not…

— Neil Denari

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists…

— Eduard Bernstein

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a…

— Ansel Adams

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

— Jeff Merkley

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the…

— John Berger

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

— Matthew Lesko

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to…

— Orson Scott Card

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

— Peter Sarsgaard

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance…

— Peter L. Berger

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy…

— Bob Dylan

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of…

— Carrie Brownstein

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much…

— Baron de Montesquieu

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

— Joni Mitchell

I think to a degree this happens when they [russians] spot a softness in us, which I think for a while they…

— John Kasich