Top 100 Quotes About Degrees
#1. The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn
Susan Abulhawa
#3. 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.
Ted Alexandro
#4. If we are connected to everyone else by six degrees and we can influence them up to three degrees, then one way to think about ourselves is that each of us can reach about halfway to everyone else on the planet.
Nicholas A. Christakis
#6. When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see it. It was a hot day, 80 or 90 degrees. I don't remember seeing any raindrops fall. I thought, this is a sign.
Leymah Gbowee
#7. Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.'
Hideo Kojima
#8. Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.
Lance Morrow
#9. To varying degrees, we all feel awkward. Whether we hide it with arrogance, shyness, modesty; whether we play the clown or the trendsetter, everyone struggles.
Miranda Hart
#10. A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden of the story is to the author's psyche.
John Hersey
#11. 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.
Peter Diamandis
#12. By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive, active and, sometimes, aglow with joy.
Hermann Hesse
#13. In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past, but as a rule something must be said. People have the habit of inquiring - if they are no more than butchers and bakers. By degrees one must account for this and that fact, and it was so here.
Theodore Dreiser
#14. 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.
Bryan Cranston
#15. 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.
Jack Kemp
#16. 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.
David Hume
#17. I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.
Thomas Kinkade
#18. Motherfuckers from Harvard to Harlem respect the Pew Research Center, and hearing this, the concerned patrons turned around in their squeaky plastic seats as best they could, given that donut shop swivel chairs swivel only six degrees in either direction.
Paul Beatty
#19. Rowen ... " he called, not quite an order but several degrees much too authoritative for my "I am woman, hear me roar and hyphenate my last name" liking.
Nicole Williams
#20. There really was no point in having vision that didn't revolve a full 360 degrees because it was usually from behind that life would sneak up and overtake you.
Keith Buckley
#22. Ah realise now thit death is usually a process, rather than an
event. People generally die by degrees, incrementally. They rot away slowly in homes and hoespitals,
or places like this.
Irvine Welsh
#23. If I were to open a corner store, I'd call it 90 Degrees.
Jarod Kintz
#24. Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.
Kenneth Waltz
#26. There are degrees and kinds of solitude ... I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
Aldo Leopold
#27. We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Anthony Burgess
#28. Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
E.W. Howe
#29. I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.
Julia Quinn
#30. Girls are increasingly outperforming boys in the classroom, earning about 57 percent of the undergraduate and 60 percent of the master's degrees in the United States.
Sheryl Sandberg
#31. It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.
Elinor Lipman
#32. L.A. is a constellation of microclimates and microcosms, a library with dozens of special collections. A 20-minute drive can bring a temperature change of 15 degrees. Crossing an intersection can feel like crossing a national border.
Meghan Daum
#33. All of the features that characterize Asperger syndrome can be found in varying degrees in the normal population
Lorna Wing
#34. The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
Joshua Cohen
#35. He would die early, since nothing so fair could decline by common degrees in a faded season.
Tennessee Williams
#36. There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
William James
#37. 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.
Vladimir Putin
#38. He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.
Amish Tripathi
#39. She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.
-Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
#40. 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.
Ken Livingstone
#41. There are degrees of everything, which doesn't fit well into your true-or-false view of the world.
Susan Dennard
#42. Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.
Swami Vivekananda
#43. There will soon be no more priests ... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest.
Walt Whitman
#44. 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.
Chang-rae Lee
#45. Philosophically speaking, from the Buddhist point of view, both human beings and animals possess what in Tibetan is called shepa, which can be roughly translated as "consciousness," albeit to different degrees of complexity.
Dalai Lama XIV
#46. The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#47. Admiral, the...the Emperor would like to speak with you." The air in the room seemed to drop ten degrees.
Christian Kallias
#48. And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.
Ian Rankin
#49. 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.
Isabelle Huppert
#50. Giving her a slow, coaxing smile that turned the heat in the room up by a thousand degrees, he stroked her lips with the balls of his thumbs as he murmured, "Can we get back to talking about possibly inviting that werewolf for sex?
Thea Harrison
#51. Not to harp on Jane Austen, but do you know why everyone loves Darcy?"
"Here we go. Austen has the answer for everything." Shelby laughed outright. There were no six degrees of separation for Rebecca: everything related directly back to Jane.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#52. Feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.
Rheta Childe Dorr
#53. 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.
Dave Abrams
#54. It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.
Ron Paul
#55. I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.
Glen Taylor
#56. Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the f-ck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
Ozzy Osbourne
#57. raising her glass of ice tea, "here's to girls, their rifles, and law degrees.
Kathleen Brooks
#58. We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama
#59. 59/ I walk into Summerville and no matter what my mood is it instantly drops about thirty degrees.
Kim Addonizio
#60. The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns.
Martin Rees
#61. 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.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#62. Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
Jean Racine
#63. I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.
Scott Adams
#64. If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
William Gibson
#65. Each repetition pales by degrees because, when you return to what you already know, it can't be experienced for the first time.
Deepak Chopra
#66. Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
Carrie Brownstein
#67. Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
John Ruskin
#68. 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.
Bob Dylan
#69. I was at a speaking engagement for MIT ... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'
Russell Johnson
#70. We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.
Frederick Lenz
#71. After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.
Mignon McLaughlin
#72. My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date ... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me ... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#73. Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.
Tom Spanbauer
#74. There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
Zaha Hadid
#75. A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he couldn't get the temperature of his Boston home above 38 degrees Fahrenheit.
Bill Bryson
#76. It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation
Gary Vaynerchuk
#77. Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. 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.
Comte De Lautreamont
#79. 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.
John James Audubon
#80. Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
Allan Bloom
#81. School is temporary. Education is not. If you want to prosper in life: find something that fascinates you and jump all over it. Don't wait for someone to teach you; your enthusiasm will attract teachers to you. Don't worry about diplomas or degrees; just get so good that no one can ignore you.
James Marcus Bach
#82. Slowly the silent bird turned its head. It could do so, if it chose, through more than three hundred and sixty degrees.
Edward Rutherfurd
#84. Kahnawake
November 1704
Temperature 44 degrees
"They won't let you see her," said Ruth flatly. "Now tell us, Mr. Williams, why has ransom not come? Do people have short memories or no memory? Why do they not rescue us? I get so angry sometimes."
Sometimes! thought Mercy.
Caroline B. Cooney
#85. I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.
Red Auerbach
#86. Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
Cressida Cowell
#87. 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.
Haki R. Madhubuti
#88. most modern degrees and certifications demonstrate that you have passed some tests to demonstrate acceptable grasp of generic information. Big whoop. You can do better.
M.F. Stone
#89. For the last few hours I could feel myself growing less drunk and more hungover by slow degrees. I'd never been awake through the entire process before, and it was not pleasant.
Patrick Rothfuss
#90. Rich or poor, high or low, all men are equal in sin. There are surface differences and degrees, but a deep identity beneath. So on the same principle all souls are of the same value. Here is the true democracy of Christianity. So there is one ransom for all, for the need of all is identical. III.
Alexander MacLaren
#91. I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.
Sean Hannity
#92. 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
Steven Wright
#93. It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.
Luc De Clapiers
#94. The center of the earth is about a million degrees.
Al Gore
#95. The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love.
Andrea Bocelli
#96. God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.
Francois Fenelon
#97. 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.
Mark Lynas
#98. There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.
Jane Jensen
#99. If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.
Richard Strauss
#100. Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.
Thomas Carlyle
