Famous quotes containing the word degree:
“Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isnt first degree murder; in fact, it isnt even murder; in fact, I dont know what it is.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realise the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
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