People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is… — Plautus Copy Share Image
I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have… — Emmitt Smith Copy Share Image
The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree. — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Being healthy is a complete lifestyle for me. It allows my brain to function at a very high degree so I can… — Derrick Rose Copy Share Image
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies,… — Isaac Newton 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
“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity. — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the difference between what’s real and what you’ve created… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another… — Andrew Skurka Copy Share Image
I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their… — Mark Falcoff Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized… — Flora Lewis Copy Share Image
