Degrees Quotes - Page 35

With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.

I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.

We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.

I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

I think to a degree this happens when they [russians] spot a softness in us, which I think for a while they did.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.

I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."

A psychology degree doesn't get you very far.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.

You have to have faith that if you want people to like your brand, you have to do likeable things. There has to be some degree of trust that, if you're an enjoyable brand, people will want to spend time with you.

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.