Gauges Quotes

80 Gauges quotes by 78 unique authors

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years. — Mohsin Hamid
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just… — Mindy Kaling
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay… — Lance Loud
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
Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we… — Nathan Myhrvold
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. — Arthur Smith
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the… — Hunter S. Thompson
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress.… — Gary Vaynerchuk
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a… — Haruki Murakami
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps… — John Steinbeck
...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 don’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 ‘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 you’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 hasn’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

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