#degrees

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#athletic #both #burdens #character #consists

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#cruel #degrees #despair #differing #doubt

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be. ↗

— Origen

#believe #better #degrees #either #far

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

#education #life #literacy #need #successful

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#around #become #country #degrees #departments

I’m fucking demanding, and you should know that if you ever feel like experimenting and ask me for a threesome, I’m most likely to cut off your dick and feed it to my neighbor’s Chihuahua. ↗

— Taylor V. Donovan

#sdos-the-by-degrees-series #experience

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

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#any #authors #bags #corner #degrees

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#art #choice #degrees #golf #great

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#degrees #event #hot #remains #thousand