Quotes about Degrees

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. Votes: 4

Its 75 Degrees! In December! Votes: 3

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music. Votes: 3

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil. Votes: 3

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. Votes: 3

Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship. Votes: 3

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him. Votes: 3

It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler! Votes: 3

I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me. Votes: 3

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood. Votes: 3

We boil at different degrees. Votes: 2

We boil at different degrees. Votes: 2

I have actually five honorary degrees. Votes: 2

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. Votes: 2

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. Votes: 2

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees. Votes: 2

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology. Votes: 2

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Votes: 2

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. Votes: 2

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. Votes: 2

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. Votes: 2

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Votes: 2

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Votes: 2

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Votes: 2

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. Votes: 2

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. Votes: 2

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. Votes: 2

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Votes: 2

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. Votes: 2

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. Votes: 2

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it. Votes: 2

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! Votes: 2

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. Votes: 2

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. Votes: 2

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools. Votes: 2

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment. Votes: 2

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. Votes: 2

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. Votes: 2

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant. Votes: 2

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. Votes: 2

When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world. Votes: 2

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. Votes: 2

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary. Votes: 2

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. Votes: 2

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. Votes: 2

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. Votes: 2

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. Votes: 2

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. Votes: 2

I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. Votes: 2

My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader. Votes: 2

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. Votes: 2

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Votes: 2

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. Votes: 2

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Votes: 2

What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered. Votes: 2

We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree. Votes: 2

Dallas is an extraordinary place in it's own right. The first thing about Dallas that you can't get away from, particularly when I arrived, you've got no idea of the heat in this place. It's over 100 degrees, and with that the humidity is ridiculous. I mean, people don't live here, armadillos live here. Votes: 2

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. Votes: 2

Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things. Votes: 2

Good is done by degrees. Votes: 0

All habits gather by unseen degrees. Votes: 0

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom. Votes: 0

Lying, like license, has its degrees. Votes: 0

Death, like virtue, has its degrees. Votes: 0

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. Votes: 0

There are no degrees of honesty. Votes: 0

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees. Votes: 0

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? Votes: 0

Two Arts degrees does not a life make. Votes: 0

You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees. Votes: 0

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees. Votes: 0

I'm not running anywhere, it's like ninety-five degrees out. Votes: 0

Not your degrees, but your choice, defines your intelligence. Votes: 0

The center of the earth is about a million degrees. Votes: 0

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. Votes: 0

There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore. Votes: 0

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through. Votes: 0

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated. Votes: 0

I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly. Votes: 0

Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION. Votes: 0

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. Votes: 0

There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility. Votes: 0

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons. Votes: 0

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, Votes: 0

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot. Votes: 0

It is because people exist in varyinig degrees of the dream. Votes: 0

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't. Votes: 0

I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees. Votes: 0

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business. Votes: 0

The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph' Votes: 0

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good. Votes: 0

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. Votes: 0

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. Votes: 0

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands. Votes: 0

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. Votes: 0

It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation Votes: 0

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. Votes: 0

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees. Votes: 0

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. Votes: 0

It's ninety-six degrees in the shade... Before I catch blood on my blade. Votes: 0

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. Votes: 0

The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees. Votes: 0

The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong Votes: 0

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom. Votes: 0

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. Votes: 0

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage. Votes: 0

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death Votes: 0

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. Votes: 0

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. Votes: 0

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives Votes: 0

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives. Votes: 0

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things. Votes: 0

I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket. Votes: 0

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents. Votes: 0

It got up to 94 degrees today – that's pretty good at my age. Votes: 0

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment. Votes: 0

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. Votes: 0

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks. Votes: 0

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees. Votes: 0

Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began. Votes: 0

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. Votes: 0

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. Votes: 0

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. Votes: 0

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. Votes: 0

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't. Votes: 0

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. Votes: 0

Sixth sense, six pack, six degrees of separation / My evil third eye blinks with no hesitation Votes: 0

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s. Votes: 0

For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%. Votes: 0

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Votes: 0

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. Votes: 0

I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other. Votes: 0

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. Votes: 0

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. Votes: 0

The loves of men but vary in degrees-- They find no new expression for the flame. Votes: 0

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary. Votes: 0

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks! Votes: 0

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm. Votes: 0

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Votes: 0

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins. Votes: 0

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees. Votes: 0

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees. Votes: 0

I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual. Votes: 0

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint. Votes: 0

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. Votes: 0

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction. Votes: 0

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. Votes: 0

I feel like everyone kind of knew someone, like 6 degrees of separation. In Hollywood that is very common. Votes: 0

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me. Votes: 0

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything. Votes: 0

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? Votes: 0

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license. Votes: 0

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite. Votes: 0

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. Votes: 0

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired. Votes: 0

It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation. Votes: 0

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production. Votes: 0

Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the f-ck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH! Votes: 0

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm. Votes: 0

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas. Votes: 0

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. Votes: 0

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Votes: 0

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures? Votes: 0

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads. Votes: 0

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife. Votes: 0

I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs. Votes: 0

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life. Votes: 0

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed. Votes: 0

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. Votes: 0

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade. Votes: 0

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. Votes: 0

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc. Votes: 0

I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees, Votes: 0

Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you. Votes: 0

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.. Votes: 0

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime. Votes: 0

Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment. Votes: 0

In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power. Votes: 0

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. Votes: 0

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. Votes: 0

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me. Votes: 0

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others Votes: 0

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them. Votes: 0

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads. Votes: 0

The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love. Votes: 0

All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. Votes: 0

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing. Votes: 0

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid. Votes: 0

If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? Votes: 0

Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos. Votes: 0

There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process. Votes: 0

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Votes: 0

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness. Votes: 0

She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl Votes: 0

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. Votes: 0

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees. Votes: 0

In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'. Votes: 0

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results. Votes: 0

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. Votes: 0

The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn Votes: 0

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year. Votes: 0

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck. Votes: 0

Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both. Votes: 0

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. Votes: 0

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty. Votes: 0

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was Hee Haw, was 360 degrees of entertainment. Votes: 0

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment. Votes: 0

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees. Votes: 0

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism. Votes: 0

I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off. Votes: 0

Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees. Votes: 0

A man who claims to be 32 degrees is one freezing freemason. That man must make love with all the warmth of a shadowy secret. Votes: 0

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies. Votes: 0

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best. Votes: 0

It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other. Votes: 0

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. Votes: 0

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her. Votes: 0

We die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars. Votes: 0

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. Votes: 0

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. Votes: 0

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way. Votes: 0

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step. Votes: 0

I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in. Votes: 0

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility. Votes: 0

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom? Votes: 0

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us. Votes: 0

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. Votes: 0

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. Votes: 0

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material. Votes: 0

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. Votes: 0

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them. Votes: 0

Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think. Votes: 0

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. Votes: 0

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks. Votes: 0

The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees. Votes: 0

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top. Votes: 0

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. Votes: 0

If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate. Votes: 0

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country. Votes: 0

I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the arrangement we have potentially. Votes: 0

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon. Votes: 0

The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want. Votes: 0

I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice. Votes: 0

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees. Votes: 0

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. Votes: 0

Shadow conceals"”light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art. Votes: 0

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me. Votes: 0

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole. Votes: 0

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person. Votes: 0

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance. Votes: 0

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out. Votes: 0

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking. Votes: 0

Sales is an experiment - there's no right or wrong, just varying degrees of effectiveness. Our job is to constantly seek ways we can increase our effectiveness. Votes: 0

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher. Votes: 0

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed. Votes: 0

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential? Votes: 0

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree. Votes: 0

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?" Votes: 0

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. Votes: 0

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. Votes: 0

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid. Votes: 0

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees. Votes: 0

It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated Votes: 0

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef. Votes: 0

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. Votes: 0

The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection. Votes: 0

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. Votes: 0

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees. Votes: 0

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain. Votes: 0

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time. Votes: 0

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth. Votes: 0

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees. Votes: 0

What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent? Votes: 0

"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree. Votes: 0

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush. Votes: 0

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves. Votes: 0

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college. Votes: 0

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work. Votes: 0

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense. Votes: 0

No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created! Votes: 0

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations. Votes: 0

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water. Votes: 0

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God. Votes: 0

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work. Votes: 0

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation. Votes: 0

In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to assume the role of the Buddha himself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Votes: 0

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees. Votes: 0

A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. Votes: 0

The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees. Votes: 0

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees. Votes: 0

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average. Votes: 0

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world. Votes: 0

In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have. Votes: 0

Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects. Votes: 0

Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men. Votes: 0

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about. Votes: 0

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees. Votes: 0

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. Votes: 0

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so. Votes: 0

A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group. Votes: 0

Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent. Votes: 0

You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality. Votes: 0

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages. Votes: 0

Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm. Votes: 0

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees. Votes: 0

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point. Votes: 0

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities. Votes: 0

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Votes: 0

Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India. Votes: 0

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves. Votes: 0

Every day in every way I am growing more prosperous, successful, victorious. I am made for peace, health, and plenty, and I am now experiencing them in ever-increasing degrees of good. Votes: 0

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences. Votes: 0

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation. Votes: 0

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors ARE controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs. Votes: 0

The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It's 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It's a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them. Votes: 0

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write. Votes: 0

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything. Votes: 0

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake. Votes: 0

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them. Votes: 0

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true. Votes: 0

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella. Votes: 0

One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are. Votes: 0

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees. Votes: 0

No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have. Votes: 0

An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up. Votes: 0

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger. Votes: 0

The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees. Votes: 0

Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn. Votes: 0

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. Votes: 0

Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University`s board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges and universities have rescinded honorary degrees they gave him. Votes: 0

It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity. Votes: 0

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density. Votes: 0

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal. Votes: 0

We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand. Votes: 0

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees. Votes: 0

Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar. Votes: 0

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back. Votes: 0

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not! Votes: 0

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian. Votes: 0

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. Votes: 0

Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees. Votes: 0

Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech. Votes: 0

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees. Votes: 0

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures. Votes: 0

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times. Votes: 0

I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.' I said, oops Votes: 0

Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer - it's like 125 degrees - so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat. Votes: 0

If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change. Votes: 0

Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings ... Votes: 0

About ten degrees upslope of Fiction, I could see our nearest neighbor: Artistic Criticism. It was an exceptionally beautiful island, yet deeply troubled, confused and suffused with a blanketing layer of almost impenetrable bullshit. Votes: 0

Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships. Votes: 0

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion. Votes: 0

When I talk to people who believe in this global warming crap... it's fake science. They may have educations and degrees that say they are scientists, but they're not. They're political hacks and leftists. Votes: 0

Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997. Votes: 0

You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me. Votes: 0

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs! Votes: 0

Derek's like, "So . . . what do you want to do first?" "I don't know." "Feel like ice cream?" "It's, like, three degrees out." "That's why getting ice cream would be badass. Votes: 0

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny. Votes: 0

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education. Votes: 0

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern." Votes: 0

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern. Votes: 0

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside. Votes: 0

We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees. Votes: 0

If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself. Votes: 0

There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees. Votes: 0

Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven. Votes: 0

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices. Votes: 0

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. Votes: 0

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. Votes: 0

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. Votes: 0

Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000. Votes: 0

Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions. Votes: 0

The spiritual (i.e. the supersensory) has many degrees; thus, the term 'spiritual' is used both for the scale of degrees away from the physical towards the spirit, but also only for the spiritual proper. Votes: 0

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles. Votes: 0

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve. Votes: 0

Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside. Votes: 0

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. Votes: 0

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives. Votes: 0

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. Votes: 0

If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way. Votes: 0

It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water. Votes: 0

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them. Votes: 0