#degrees

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

— Munshi Premchand

#education #life #literacy #need #successful

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

— Seth Green

#hands #how #interpret #out #people

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

— E. W. Howe

#men #men and women #must #pretend #valuable

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

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

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. ↗

— Gilbert White

#day #deep #degrees #doors #fourteen

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. ↗

— Earle Brown

#beginning #cage #changes #concepts #consciously