Degree Quotes

1888 Degree quotes by 1428 unique authors

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure… — David Steindl-Rast
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. — Orson Scott Card
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they… — Pema Chodron
Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and… — Pamela Dean
I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness… — Dalai Lama
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not… — Ayn Rand
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.… — Brigham Young
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. — Michelle Richmond
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in… — Madeleine L'Engle
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. — Gustave Flaubert
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference. — Charles Portis
Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet… — Dean Koontz
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all… — Jane Austen
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man… — Frank Herbert
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever… — John Berger
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as… — Jonathan Edwards
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off… — Vera Nazarian
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the… — Jonathan Edwards

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