Degree Quotes

1888 Degree quotes by 1428 unique authors

Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not… — John Stuart Mill
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot… — N.D. Wilson
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything — Gustave Flaubert
Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English degree. Ha! I'd… — Rachel Vincent
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which… — Ayn Rand
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. — Albert Einstein
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional… — Alex Haley
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines… — Ayn Rand
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment… — H P Lovecraft
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so… — Lionel Shriver
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe… — Wallace Stegner
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over… — John Steinbeck
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the… — Theodore Roosevelt
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid.… — Lisa Kleypas
There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last — Mikhail Bulgakov
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the… — Winston Churchill
Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy. — Elizabeth Gaskell
For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all… — Thomas Paine
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… — Andre Breton
Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's… — Zoey Dean
Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly… — Viktor E. Frankl
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain.… — Mother Angelica
The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled… — Harmony Korine
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse

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