Degrees Quotes - Page 47

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

By this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

If age was temperature, You'd be getting hotter Happy 60th degree You, hot shotter

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never imposed the way I write a novel on my students. When I had students, I never said, "You should never start writing a novel until you have the last sentence." I never did that, and I wouldn't do it now, but people now seem so interested in the process [of writing fiction] that I have to constantly make it clear when I describe mine that I'm not being prescriptive. I'm not proselytizing.

So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.