Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality. — A.J. Cronin 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
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by. — Tom Landry 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
One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone… — Warren Buffett 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
A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures -… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute… — George Soros Copy Share Image
But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief?… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs… — James Branch Cabell 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 strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal… — Geraldine Brooks 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
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
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
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. — Ai Weiwei 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
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
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
the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another. — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
