Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    “One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.”
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    “In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can’t compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents’ lives.”
    —Frank Pittman (20th century)

    “A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)