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Measurement Quotes (page 30)

I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood. Do not you think we have? ''Not half a mile,' was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness. Jane Austen
Theodore Roethke quote: "(I measure time by how a body sways.)"
(I measure time by how a body sways.) Theodore Roethke
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein
Suzanne Collins quote: "That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm..."
That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish. Suzanne Collins
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph. Elie Wiesel
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. George Eliot
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my... Charles Baudelaire
Billy Sunday quote: "You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps."
You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps. Billy Sunday
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit. F. Scott Fitzgerald
A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest. Paulo Coelho
It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future F. Scott Fitzgerald
Florida Scott-Maxwell quote: "Anger must be the evergy that has not yet found its right..."
Anger must be the evergy that has not yet found its right channel."---the Measure of my Days Florida Scott-Maxwell
Charles Simic quote: "Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the..."
Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other. Charles Simic
His abhorrence and fear of alcohol did not extend to his power as host. He kept a huge cupboard of drinks in the station house and loved to serve large measures to visiting relatives--especially those he disliked--about which there was a definite element of spreading bait for garden snails. John McGahern
If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong. Robert A. Heinlein

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