Degrees Quotes

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

Patience, Poor, Wound

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

Leadership, Happen, Keep

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard

God, Scars, Medals

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.
Henry Rollins

Destiny, Hatred, Matter

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire

Time, Perfection, Hand

We boil at different degrees.
Clint Eastwood

Different, Boil

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.
Thomas Paine

Enemy, Battle, Same

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo

Men, Become, Poison

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.
Norman Cousins

Education, Person, May

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.
Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership, Character, Leader

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.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Sadness, Doubt, Start

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Play, Devil, Sword

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.
Thomas S. Monson

May, Effort, Second

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.
John Cusack

Yourself, Judge, Bad

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Death, Goal

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

Different, Between, Effort

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.
Polly Toynbee

Happiness, Pain, Brain

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
John Archibald Wheeler

Hot, Thousand, Event

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Anthony Burgess

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
Munshi Premchand

Life, Education, Successful

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

Funny, Health, Great

I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.
Emeril Lagasse

Two, Pretty, Student

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.
James Lovelock

End, Different, Place

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden

Run, Habits, Ill

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
E. W. Howe

Women, Men, Virtue

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
Arabella Weir

Children, Parents, Important

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

Second, Turn, Glorious

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.
Joyce Carol Oates

True, Strange, Might

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.
Sloane Crosley

Down, Goes, Necessity

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.
Murray Walker

Through, Wrong, Himself

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