The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. — John Madden Copy Share Image
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality. — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point… — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the… — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But… — Karl Evang Copy Share Image
What? You're thinking for yourself? You're deciding on your own? You're applying your own yardsticks, your own judgments, your own values? Who… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is… — Mamata Banerjee Copy Share Image
Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live… — Mauricio Kagel Copy Share Image
Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by. — Tom Landry Copy Share Image
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience;… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
