Varying Degrees Quotes

#1. Pain is not the most important tool in Dominance and submission, yet it is a most worthy tool. Pain breaks down barriers and defences. And for intensifying the orgasm? There are few superior devices a Dom has to achieve such, other than varying degrees of pain.

Nikki Sex

#2. 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.

Anneli Rufus

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

Geoff Mulgan

#4. Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

Camille Paglia

#5. We ultimately have to find truth in the material, and I think that transfers onto the screen. Obviously there's varying degrees of it, and we don't get it right all the time [laughs], but I think when it feels grounded, it's because we recognize the truth in the material.

Ian Somerhalder

#6. 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.

Samuel Alexander

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

Oliver Sacks

#8. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty
some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

Richard P. Feynman

#9. In just 20 years terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they guide are meticulously cleansed and staged.

Hugh Sidey

#10. Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.

Ellen Willis

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

Elliott Abrams

#12. This arrogance thing ... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

James Corden

#13. 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.

H. Ned Seelye

#14. There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

William S. Burroughs

#15. Narcissism, detachment, schizoid personality, sociopath - these things run rampant in the human race in varying degrees.

C.C. Hunter

#16. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#17. 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.

Constantin Stanislavski

#18. Every girl comes into the world with varying degrees of ambition," she said, "even if it's only the hope of not belonging body and soul to her husband.

Sue Monk Kidd

#19. Nobody was innocent. There were only varying degrees of responsibility.

Stieg Larsson

#20. Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

Lance Loud

#21. Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

George Henry Lewes

#22. You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#23. If the original essence of the thing which we fear could confidently lodge itself within us by its own authority it would be the same in all men. For all men are of the same species and, in varying degrees, are all furnished with the same conceptual tools and instruments of judgement.

Michel De Montaigne

#24. Nicholas wondered briefly if it was his destiny to be surrounded by women possessing varying degrees of murderous intent.

Alexandra Bracken

#25. I think if a writer is being honest they'd admit to a file full of a dozen or more stories that are all started to varying degrees. They're like the kid who wants to be a firefighter and a police officer and an astronaut.

Dan Alatorre

#26. 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.

Stephen Batchelor

#27. No one's normal. It's all just varying degrees of being weird." - Nerida

Fainne J. Firmin

#28. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

Nelson DeMille

#29. A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.

Lisa Firestone

#30. Most men, she'd decided, were bastards of varying degrees.

Sarah J. Maas

#31. 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.

Johan Galtung

#32. I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.

Rachel Bloom

#33. I didn't tell her, because I didn't think it would help, but all people are lost, to varying degrees. I suspected that it's only when we love others - through purpose, friendship, romance, or any combination thereof - that we become found.

Penny Reid

#34. 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.

Christopher Heyerdahl

#35. Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

Christopher Heyerdahl

#36. I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.

David Levithan

#37. 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.

Earle Brown

#38. We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.

Sean Maguire

#39. Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

Baldassare Castiglione

#40. I had now reached that phase of the disorder where all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity; my brain, in thrall to its outlaw hormones, had become less an organ of thought than an instrument registering, minute by minute, varying degrees of its own suffering.

William Styron

#41. I can't stand lies. Probably no one can. Probably everyone is, to varying degrees, allergic to them, both spiritually and physically. Lies make me feel low and ignoble, and also itchy, like there's sand under my skin. The only thing that feels worse than hearing a lie is telling one.

Marisa De Los Santos

#42. All the Amore siblings had The Sight in varying degrees, and its fickleness got us into trouble sometimes.

Suzanne Palmieri

#43. Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

Bertrand Russell

#44. Well, I've been lucky. I've never gotten a voice polyp. I've never gotten nodes. But I do get sick, usually every tour, and to varying degrees. Sometimes it's a sinusitis.

Geddy Lee

#45. 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.

Jill Konrath

#46. They were of much the same stock, and their creeds could only be distinguished by their varying degrees of bigotry and intolerance.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#47. We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Bo Lozoff

#48. Maybe the only way our story can end is varying degrees of sad.

Courtney Summers

#49. We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.

David A. Kolb

#51. I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes there are leftover olives I use in pasta sauce because they didn't quite make the grade.

Kyle MacLachlan

#52. The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy ... Or mustard.

Patrick Carney

#53. The most likely person to kill you is your wife, but that probably won't happen. What probably will happen is a million little betrayals of varying degrees of pain, brought on by people you love, the only ones who really can hurt you.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#54. The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

Bear Grylls

#55. There are no experts, only varying degrees of ignorance

Amit Trivedi

#56. Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.

John Travolta

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. All of the features that characterize Asperger syndrome can be found in varying degrees in the normal population

Lorna Wing

#62. 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

#63. Being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

Jasper Fforde

#64. Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme.
Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind's agitations, vikshepas are quietened. As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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

Dion Fortune

#66. All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value?

Louis MacNeice

#67. 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.

Brian Herbert

#68. I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them - the bad kids and the good kids and all kids - as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized.

John Green

#69. 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.

Jamais Cascio

#70. The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture that has irrevocably warped us all to varying degrees.

Lynn Coady

#71. It seems obvious that both the religious and the irreligious are capable of varying degrees of tolerance or intolerance, benevolence or malice, depending on how they understand the moral implications of their beliefs.

David Bentley Hart

#72. Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?

Ruthy Alon

#73. 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 ...

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#74. there isn't shame in having shadows - we all have them to varying degrees. it's simply a part of being human

Timothy Roderick