#degrees

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#grows #man #method #up #wickedness

We boil at different degrees. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#degrees #different

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#among #arbitrary #arbitrary power #civilization #degrees

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

#attain #cannot #commands #defect #degrees

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#desperation #money #need

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing. ↗

— John Cusack

#comparison #degrees #else #how #judge

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ↗

— John Dryden

#degrees #gather #habits #ill #make

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. ↗

— Lance Loud

#class #coming #degrees #difficulty #geography

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average. ↗

— James Lovelock

#average #being #century #degrees #different