Degrees Quotes - Page 8

Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.

Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Everyone has the talent to some degree: even making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you know whether it tastes better to you with raspberry jam or grape jelly; on chewy pumpernickel or white toast.

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared... It's like 50% off... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

From the first Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has proven that He will only come to the degree that we have unity.

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

Back in 2005, when I was Christopher Eccleston, we saw one of the largest increases on record, of CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless we keep the rise in global temperature to under 2 degrees, by the time I'm Daniel Radcliffe or wee Jimmy Crankie, I won't be able to save the planet. I won't be here to help you -- well I might, but I'll be that bloke who won Any Dream Will Do.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.