There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.
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.
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.
Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES.
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning.
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.
To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that will give me longevity.
To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive...
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
