(516 quotes found)
“The carp was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second and third degree. Limp, I fell into a chair, with my hands still unwashed reached for a cigarette, lighted it and waited for the police to come and take me into custody.”
Alice B. Toklas
“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
“Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“The heavens themselves, the planets and this centreObserve degree, priority and place.”
William Shakespeare
“Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.”
G. M. Trevelyan
“When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.”
Christine Comaford
“everyone graduates with a coaching degree.”
Darrell Royal
“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ought to rake it.”
James P. Cannon
“We get the strong sense that the degree of frustration with China is accelerating very sharply and is not likely to be assuaged by a few orders that likely would have been placed anyway.”
C. Fred Bergsten
