Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear… — Polybius Copy Share Image
I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The science of Contrology disproves that prevalent and all-too-trite saying; 'You're only as old as you feel.' The art of Contrology proves… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.'… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol,… — Harry S. Truman 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
A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis.… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at… — Narciso Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence… — William Hague Copy Share Image
If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas. — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition. — John Clare Copy Share Image
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image