Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    A certain degree of miserey [sic] seems inseparable from a high degree of populousness.
    James Madison (1751–1836)

    I’ve always credited the private detective with a high degree of omniscience. Or is that only true in rental fiction?
    John Paxton (1911–1985)