Degree Quotes - page 2

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. (George Eliot)
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. View quote
Francis Picabia
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. View quote
Edmund Burke
Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. View quote
Ronald Fisher
And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. View quote
Jane Austen
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. View quote
Anatole France
If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes. View quote
John L. Lewis
The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful. (Hal Clement)
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. View quote
Peter McWilliams
To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. View quote
George Bancroft
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. View quote
Albert Einstein
And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head. View quote
Mark Haddon
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind. View quote
Douglas Preston
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. (K. Eric Drexler)
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. View quote
Caroline Knapp
Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
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. View quote
Alan Brennert
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. View quote
Alan Dean Foster