All Quotes

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
‐‐ George Santayana

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
‐‐ Vince Cable

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.
‐‐ Bill Nighy

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

The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
‐‐ Natasha Richardson

The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.
‐‐ David Weinberger

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?
‐‐ Mike Nichols

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.
‐‐ Jim Gerlach

The delay in SpaceShipTwo has not been the development of either of the vehicles. But the rocket motor has just been problematic from the get-go.
‐‐ Brian Binnie

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
‐‐ George W. Bush

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.
‐‐ George Stigler

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
‐‐ Max Beerbohm

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
‐‐ Richard Hofstadter

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
‐‐ Isaac D'Israeli

The delights of self-discovery are always available.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

The Delorean was an inferior automobile, and nearly impossible for a person of normal size like myself to enter and exit.
‐‐ Thomas F. Wilson

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.
‐‐ David Edwards

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.
‐‐ Ann Veneman

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.
‐‐ Spencer Abraham

The demand for entertainment is insatiable.
‐‐ Roberto Civita

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
‐‐ Marc Maron

The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
‐‐ James Joyce

The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
‐‐ M. Stanton Evans

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about.
‐‐ Peter Maxwell Davies

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
‐‐ Matt Blunt

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.
‐‐ Arjun Rampal

The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.
‐‐ Henry Spencer

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.
‐‐ James Fallows

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
‐‐ Ralph Nader

The Democracy is for People Amendment will stop corporations and their front groups from using their profits and dark money donations to influence our elections while reaffirming the right of the American people to elections that are fair and representatives that are accountable.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.
‐‐ Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.
‐‐ Richard Morris

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.
‐‐ Kevin Rose

The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.
‐‐ Howard Dean

The Democratic Party believes that health insurance is a social responsibility of the nation. I believe that health insurance is an individual responsibility. And that's a really hard philosophy to mesh.
‐‐ Raul Labrador