Degrees Quotes - Page 38

• Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Heaven, Democracy, Patents

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• It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.

  Anna C Salter

  Parent, Way, Like You

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• The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Judging, Perfection, Progress

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• The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Mean, Artist, Imagination

  Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

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• Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Failing, Proportion

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.15, Penguin

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• Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on.

  Serge Nubret

  Powerful, Two, Mind

  "An Interview With Six-Time World Champion Bodybuilder Serge Nubret!". Interview with Matt Weik, www.bodybuilding.com. July 16, 2014.

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• To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
  having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Grace, Too Much

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.

  James Madison

  Passion, Character, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree.

  Hermann Goring

  Suicide, War, Men

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

  Howard Zinn

  Evil, Violence, May

  ZNet forum reply, May 26, 1999.

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• The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silence, Return, Eloquence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Plato, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Knowing, Disadvantages, Prudence

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

  Marco Rubio

  Education, Fashion, Jobs

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• Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

  Plato

  Heart, Doe, Smallest

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• To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

  Vanna Bonta

  Beautiful, Spaceships, Efficient

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2010.

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• I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.

  John Kasich

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Compassion

  "Gov. Kasich: fighting ISIS “at some point it will require boots on the ground”". "State of the Union" with Gloria Borger, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. February 22, 2015.

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• Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

  Andrew Schneider

  Life, Military, Sight

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• The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Magic, Together, World

  "The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois". Book edited by Aberjhani, 2003.

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• The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Children, Reality

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• The pain caused by this wound which He inflicts on me and the sweetness which accompanies it are so intense that I cannot even begin to describe it. However. . . this pain and this
  sweetness are completely spiritual, although it is also true that they are shared by the body to a high degree.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Pain, Body

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• To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.

  Leonardo Boff

  Artist, Reality, Environmental

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• What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

  William Wilberforce

  Country, Civilization, Doe

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• I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.

  John Legend

  Focus, Sound, Albums

  "EXCLUSIVE: John Legend Talks New Album, Film Ventures, NBA Predictions, Marriage, More". Interview with Elle Breezy, singersroom.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, Directors, Constructs

  "Danny Boyle Exclusive Interview 127 HOURS; Plus Updates on Shekhar Kapur’s PAANI, FRANKENSTEIN, the Olympics, and a Lot More". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. November 7, 2010.

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