Degrees Quotes - Page 27

• Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fall, Mean, Men

  1942 My Remarkable Uncle,'Three Score and Ten'.

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• I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression of shock, so he poured scalding hot water on my arm during the take. He splashed it on me. He got his expression of shock, but I also got, like, second-degree burns!

  John Kapelos

  College, Expression, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree. I suppose there is a juxtaposition involved in that because you do have to be a civil servant but you're doing a tremendously exciting job, or potentially an exciting job, or a glamourous job.

  Guy Ritchie

  Jobs, Ideas, Juxtaposition

  Source: collider.com

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• It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ability, Knows

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• It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tree, May, Curious

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.179

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• The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Imagination, Doubt

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.77

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• All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

  Albert Pike

  Devastation, Violent, Destruction

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.

  Homer

  Imagination, Vancouver, May

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• When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.

  Bertrand Russell

  Party, Thinking, Political

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Genius, Proportion, Please

  Claude Adrien Helvétius (1807). “De l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind. Transl. To Which are now prefixed, a life of the author and prefatory strictures by W. Mudford”, p.24

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• Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.

  Tom Robbins

  Russia, Government, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.43, Bantam

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• The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

  Aldo Leopold

  Law, Progress, Opponents

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Spring, Solitude, Kind

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "April: Come High Water", p. 25, 1949.

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• What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

  John Ruskin

  Regret, Men, Childhood

  John Ruskin “Two paths. Lectures on art, delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870. Aratra Pentelici. Time and tide. Pre-Raphaelitism. The eagle's nest. King of the Golden River. The relation between Michael Angelo and Tintoret”

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• The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

  John Ruskin

  Choices, Understanding, Weakness

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.195

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• But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Distance, Would Be, Earth

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.

  William Dean Howells

  War, Doe, Literature

  William Dean Howells (1969). “The Friendly Fire”

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• I'm all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees 'cause the learning never stops here. You know, education's a pretty big umbrella.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Causes, Graduates

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• The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Past, Class, Age

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.62, Vintage

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• Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.

  William Matthews

  Dream, Agency, Sight

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• Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Teaching, Men, Coercion

  "The Liberal Tradition in European Thought". Book by David Sidorsky, p. 73, 1971.

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• The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

  Barack Obama

  World, West, Sheriffs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Acting, Trust And Respect, Mutual

  "Thor - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on.' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, Fall, Teaching

  "Nathan Fillion Dishes on Being Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman". Movieweb Interview, www.movieweb.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

  Sara Genn

  Art, Mirrors, Expression

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