Gauges Quotes

80 quotes by 78 authors

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship… — Isabel Allende
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines… — Ayn Rand
- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?… — Vladimir Nabokov
I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by… — P. C. Cast
One must gauge one's trust carefully. — Jacqueline Carey
A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a… — Jim Butcher
If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human… — Mark Morford
Girls donâ€™t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and… — Wendelin Van Draanen
We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that â€˜the worth of… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love… — Saint Augustine
Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature… — Jonathan Franzen
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when youâ€™re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction,… — Anne Lamott
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasnâ€™t done… — Ayn Rand
You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life,… — Jack Gilbert
There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. — Jim Butcher
...the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would… — Stephenie Meyer
Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But… — Hamza Yusuf
Ladies, stretched ears are so much more attractive than a stretched vagina. — Risa Schizophrenia
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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