Top Degrees Quotes Collection

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Image of Justina Chen
Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.
- Justina Chen
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Image of Harold Brodkey
I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.
- Harold Brodkey
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Image of Lewis Hyde
We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.
- Lewis Hyde
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Image of Alan Watts
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
- Alan Watts
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Image of Richard Siken
I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn’t this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?
- Richard Siken
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Image of Cressida Cowell
Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
- Cressida Cowell
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Image of Donald Ray Pollock
For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a short while, to get it right. Which is why I sometimes listen to music when I'm revising. Music creates moods for me quicker than any other medium.
- Donald Ray Pollock
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Image of Paul Wolfowitz
We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing.
- Paul Wolfowitz
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Image of Jean Racine
Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
- Jean Racine
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Image of James O'Barr
Death, like virtue, has its degrees.
- James O'Barr
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Image of William Blackstone
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.
- William Blackstone
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Image of Albert Pike
To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'
- Albert Pike
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Image of Alan Brennert
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
- Alan Brennert
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Image of Sam Rayburn
There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.
- Sam Rayburn
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Image of Jenna Marbles
Before I go to work, I like to pump myself up by crying over my master's degree.
- Jenna Marbles
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Image of Carl Gustav Hempel
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.
- Carl Gustav Hempel
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Image of Ted Koppel
You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.
- Ted Koppel
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Image of Charlotte Mary Yonge
A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
- Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Image of Brian Herbert
Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.
- Brian Herbert
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Image of Andrew Schneider
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.
- Andrew Schneider
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Image of Marshall Goldsmith
Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.
- Marshall Goldsmith
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Image of Washington Allston
In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.
- Washington Allston
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Image of Claude Adrien Helvetius
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Image of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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Image of Johan Galtung
Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.
- Johan Galtung
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Image of Heinrich Himmler
I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.
- Heinrich Himmler
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Image of Robert Ringer
The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.
- Robert Ringer
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Image of Diane de Poitiers
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
- Diane de Poitiers
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Image of Whittaker Chambers
The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
- Whittaker Chambers
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Image of Karen Thompson Walker
To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
- Karen Thompson Walker
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Image of George Iles
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.
- George Iles
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Image of Rae Foley
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.
- Rae Foley
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Image of Kingsley Amis
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
- Kingsley Amis
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Image of L. Lionel Kendrick
The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.
- L. Lionel Kendrick
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Image of Varg Vikernes
The divide between me and the modern world is growing further because I to a larger degree manage to rid myself of my dependence on the modern world. If the modern world collapsed tomorrow I would be fine, and I see so many others who would not be.
- Varg Vikernes
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Image of Henry Seidel Canby
A short story is simplification to the highest degree
- Henry Seidel Canby
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Image of Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.
- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
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Image of Cassandra King
There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process.
- Cassandra King
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Image of Carmen Ejogo
Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.
- Carmen Ejogo
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Image of Karina Longworth
I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story.
- Karina Longworth
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Image of Diane Neal
My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!
- Diane Neal
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Image of Marilyn Frye
What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?
- Marilyn Frye
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Image of John Paul Caponigro
Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.
- John Paul Caponigro
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Image of Gerald Stern
It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.
- Gerald Stern
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Image of William Falconer
The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
- William Falconer
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Image of Richard P. Feynman
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
- Richard P. Feynman
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Image of Terry Eagleton
If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.
- Terry Eagleton
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Image of Brian Swimme
The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
- Brian Swimme
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Image of Alessandro Volta
What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
- Alessandro Volta
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Image of Burt Prelutsky
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.
- Burt Prelutsky
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