Top 1200 University Degrees Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

The loves of men but vary in degrees-- They find no new expression for the flame.

My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the universities. The state is radically defunding public universities and university presidents, for the most part, rather than defending higher education as a public good, are trying to privatize their institutions in order to remove them from the political control of state governments. This is not a worthy or productive strategy.

I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.

I love the women who are coming back to school and getting their degrees because they're so focused.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

It's ninety-six degrees in the shade... Before I catch blood on my blade.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.

My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

It got up to 94 degrees today – that's pretty good at my age.

I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

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

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

I've spent years on stage adjusting the timing of a line to infinitesimal degrees.

The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of excessive commercialization in every part of the university.' His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should engage the attention of every faculty senate in the country. He has given us a timely, candid, courageous, and important book.

My sister, brother, and I are 180 degrees different. Having a conversation with them, you have to tread lightly.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

I'm not running anywhere, it's like ninety-five degrees out.

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

Each year we pump at least six billion tons of heat-trapping carbon into the innermost layer of our atmosphere, whose outer extent is only about twelve miles overhead. According to an IPCC (United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report released this year, atmospheric CO2 will, if the buildup is left unchecked, double from its pre-industrial level within the next century. That doubling of CO2 correlates with an increase in the global temperature of at least three to eight degrees Fahrenheit. The last ice age was just five to nine degrees colder than our current climate.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.

The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way that people go to grad school, not because they think it's going to change the world but because there's no patron system anymore, and they need some scaffolding of support while they're trying to figure out how they can proceed in their lives. I think that's utterly legit. A lot of our better theorists and thinkers, that's what the university is for them.

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.