Quotes by Degrees If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over. Socrates ruinsdegreesworld With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on. Sonny Bono degreeslawyergoes-on The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government. St. George Tucker degreesgovernmentpeople The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . . Soren Kierkegaard despairdevildegrees With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. Soren Kierkegaard perfect-onedegreesneeds To whatever degree we are alert, aware, to that degree we are living Sri Sri Ravi Shankar degrees Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority. Stanley Milgram degreesflowmen There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility. Steig Larsson degreesdifferentresponsibility Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is. Stanley Kubrick horsedegreesdone In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to assume the role of the Buddha himself. Stephen Batchelor degreesassumingroles I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist. Stephen Furst counselingdegreeschildren Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. Stephen Jay Gould degreeswould-bescience Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took. Stephen Harper alliesdegreesevents If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees. Stephenie Meyer degreestoo-latewater Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends. Steve Rubel drunkdegreestogether All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. Steven Brust degreesbookthinking So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out. Steven Chu agriculturedegreesworld I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal. Steven Chu degreesbrothertwo Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions. Stephen King degreesdarknessthinking Two Arts degrees does not a life make. Steven Herrick degreestwoart«5657585960616263646566»
