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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. -- Blaise Pascal
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental. -- Don Adams
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. -- Herbert Read
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. -- Philip Stanhope
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. -- Sigmund Freud
Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree. -- Park Chan-wook
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. -- Twyla Tharp
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. -- Rene Daumal
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. -- Les Brown
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit. -- Brian Acton
A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting. -- Erin Cummings
However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes. -- Joe Slovo
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable. -- Philip Stanhope
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes. -- Caroline Knapp
I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good. -- Nolan North
My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform. -- Jason Babin
I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean, I think if one appreciates anything in life to a certain degree, it could possibly bring tears to your eyes. -- Donnie Yen
If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots. -- Angela Merkel
Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship. -- Steven Pinker
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness. -- Donald Judd
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. -- Tom Ford
Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family? -- Tino Sehgal
In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative. -- John Howard
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics. -- Lee Atwater
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections. -- Francis Collins
On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world. -- Simone Weil
A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness. -- Lord Chesterfield
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts. -- Willard Libby
There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books. -- Jasper Fforde
There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books. -- Jasper Fforde
Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something. -- Dmitry Medvedev
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly -- Desiderius Erasmus
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit. -- Dan Simmons
I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve. -- Dan Hill
Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age. -- Jeanne Moreau
Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. -- Chico Hamilton
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. -- Jonathan Edwards
I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. -- David Crabb
There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. -- Dale Carnegie
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. -- Philip Stanhope
I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion. -- Sarah Silverman
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. -- James Madison
There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust. -- James Madison
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. -- John Malkovich
As you develop, the people around you develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree. -- Choa Kok Sui
In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved. -- Indira Gandhi
Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics. -- David Hilbert
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom. -- William C. Wright
When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor. -- Queen Latifah
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. -- Alan Ayckbourn
As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree. -- Choa Kok Sui
I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity. -- Elsa Peretti
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States. -- Annette Lu
I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity. -- Douglas Booth
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree. -- Thomas Jefferson
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it. -- Donald Johanson
Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side. -- Felix Dennis
I get as much fan mail today and sign as many autographs as I did when I played. It's mind-boggling to a certain degree. -- Paul Henderson
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree. -- Thomas Jefferson
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge. -- Michael Haneke
You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy. -- Judd Nelson
I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way. -- Mitt Romney
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature. -- William Wordsworth
This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold. -- Fernando Rodes Vila
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life. -- H. P. Lovecraft
It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements. -- Utada Hikaru
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs. -- Werner Herzog
Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing. -- John Berger
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry. -- Justus von Liebig
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can. -- David Leavitt
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. -- Alan Dean Foster
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not. -- Abraham Kuyper
Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't. -- Haruki Murakami
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike. -- Lord Chesterfield
Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate. -- James Madison
Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam. -- Mark Falcoff
Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude. -- Lord Chesterfield
[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage. -- Jan Struther
Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree. -- Otto Schily
To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well. -- Michael Beck
You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it. -- Junot Diaz
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them. -- Matt Gonzalez
So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity. -- Charlie Hunnam
So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity -- Charlie Hunnam
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution. -- Luther Burbank

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