Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.
'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.
There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
To be successful in life what you need is education.
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that they must now do it. In fact there are positive incentives for doing so - universities are offering degrees for writing novels.
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.
I feel like everyone kind of knew someone, like 6 degrees of separation. In Hollywood that is very common.
Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves.
Anytime you adopt a new system you change work flow and so people have to change, to some degree change the way in which they do things.
As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.
I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.
. . . the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.
Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.