Degrees Quotes - Page 28

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.