The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
William Falconer

This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
Peter McWilliams

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
Johan Huizinga

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
Bob Newhart

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
Tadao Ando

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
Andrzej Wajda

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide

We've been probably to some degree too successful.
Karl Rove

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
G. Stanley Hall

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
Andrea Corr

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.
Wentworth Miller

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Simone Weil

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
Simone Weil

To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.
Chuck Daly

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
Elizabeth Moon

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge