Measuring Quotes

172 quotes by 162 authors

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future… — Jonathan Kozol
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating… — Jack LaLanne
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. — Ingrid Newkirk
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a… — P.J. O'Rourke
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love… — Pablo Picasso
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving… — Iain Duncan Smith
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain,… — Polly Toynbee
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station… — Abdul Kalam
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the… — Barbara Kingsolver
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a… — Elizabeth Gilbert
For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of… — Libba Bray
It is youthâ€™s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on… — Jimmy Carter
Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can… — Joseph Heller
The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time… — Elena Ferrante
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self,… — William Shakespeare
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've… — Jonathan Tropper
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,… — Virginia Woolf
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the… — Richard Matheson

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