The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

God is each truly and exalted thing therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

The addiction to sports therefore in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

For example I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Particularly black Americans many of them from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct whether legal or illegal depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

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.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

With all due respect to lawyers it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

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.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

It will be readily admitted that a degree conferred by an university ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.