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Measuring Quotes (page 29)

J. M. Coetzee quote: "The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured..."
The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard."--Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried. Henry David Thoreau
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 make that statement. Think about it. Joseph Heller
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Ann Landers quote: "the true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can..."
the true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good Ann Landers
We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant...A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. Chaim Potok
... the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. Dreams of that malignant lesser god come pale and naked and alien to slaughter all his clan and kin and rout them from their house. A god insatiable whom no ceding could appease nor any measure of blood. Cormac McCarthy
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 a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change. Howard Zinn
Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not. Anne Perry
It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered. Charles Spurgeon
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food. Michael Pollan
Benjamin Jowett quote: "The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we..."
The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money. Benjamin Jowett
James Bryce quote: "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can take..."
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can take away from it. James Bryce
A. Whitney Brown quote: "We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success."
We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success. A. Whitney Brown
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel. Helen Keller

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