Certain Degree Quotes

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud

Value, Drive, Degree

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal

Strength, Mind, Shows

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison

Men, Power, Degree

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Twyla Tharp

Experience, Old, Optimism

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
John Malkovich

Rage, Degree, Ended

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
Elizabeth Edwards

Politics, End, Sometimes

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.
Tom Ford

Life, Beautiful, Struggle

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
Angela Merkel

Today, Pride, American

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
Herbert Read

Social, Mankind, Evolution

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
Donald Judd

Work, Art, Another

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.
Matt Gonzalez

Society, Violence, Kids

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.
Charlie Hunnam

Work, Hope, Career

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Philip Stanhope

Great, Fear, Means

It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.
Utada Hikaru

Crazy, Degree, Japan

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Don Adams

Serious, Awkward, Degree

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
Joe Slovo

Crisis, Enemy, Violence

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Phillip E. Johnson

Education, Democracy, Serious

Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
Otto Schily

State, Whether, Police

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
Alan Dean Foster

Life, Giving, Sacrifice

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Rene Daumal

Pain, Words, Thought

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Robert Motherwell

Degree, Becomes, Generally

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.
Chico Hamilton

Music, Work, Play

I get as much fan mail today and sign as many autographs as I did when I played. It's mind-boggling to a certain degree.
Paul Henderson

Today, Played, Sign

I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.
John Edward

Future, Leaving, Before

We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.
Ian St. John

Hope, Hurt, Put

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
David Leavitt

Truth, Experience, True

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
Willard Libby

Science, Group, Degree

Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
Annette Lu

Freedom, Democracy, Enjoy

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