Quotes of: Certain-degree Keyword

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Bob Dylan

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Herbert Marcuse

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.

Geoff Mulgan

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

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

George Santayana

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Susan George

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

J. B. Priestley

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

Big Sean

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

George Shearing

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

John Connolly

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

Shane Carruth

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Marian Wright Edelman

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Ruth Ann Minner

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

Pete Townshend

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

Edward Norton

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Flora Lewis

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

Chaka Khan

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

Henry Rollins

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Dolly Parton