Best Measurements Sayings
75 Measurements quotes by 69 unique authors
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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person…
— Mark Twain
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A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.
— Kate Braverman
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Or maybe I had known him or maybe there's something that happens between some people at a level that goes beyond time measurements and what…
— P. C. Cast
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
— J D Salinger
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Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an…
— J D Salinger
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I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told…
— Mark Gatiss
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No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue and hieroglyph, and…
— Rick Riordan
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It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of…
— Haki R. Madhubuti
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In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn…
— Tomas Transtromer
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.
— Marcel Boulestin
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A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to…
— Branch Rickey
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There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.
— Lisa Randall
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Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
— Jill Lepore
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In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of…
— James C. Maxwell
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As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped…
— John Olver
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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex…
— Soniya Ahmed
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People always say that life is too short, so I just wonder who took the measurements.
— Paballo Nhambiri
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They say that life is too short, I just wonder who took the measurements.
— Paballo Nhambiri
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Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;…
— Robert Charles Winthrop
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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex…
— Audrey Hepburn
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According to Scripture, virtually everything that truly qualifies a person for leadership is directly related to character. It's not about style, status, personal charisma, clout,…
— John Macarthur
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This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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