Measured Quotes

808 Measured quotes by 650 unique authors

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it. — Anatole France
Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man… — Ray Bradbury
Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough. — Jorge Amado
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with… — George Eliot
I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per… — Joel Salatin
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it. — David Levithan
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve… — Jonathan Sacks
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions… — Jack Gantos
Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away — George Carlin
I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to… — Julian Barnes
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such… — Howard Zinn
When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are… — Haruki Murakami
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star,… — Carl Sagan
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought. — Markus Zusak
A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams. — T.A. Barron
The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility,… — Charles R. Swindoll
I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that… — Graham Greene
And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was… — Terry Pratchett
There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that. — Tim Harford
She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone… — Jerry Spinelli
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents… — Paolo Giordano
Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has. — Eloisa James
By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred. — Guy Gavriel Kay
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. — Germaine Greer
Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at… — Cassandra Clare

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