Quotes of Measure - somelinesforyou

“ How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ The measure of success is not whether you have tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. ”

- Henry George

“ There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ”

- Francis Beaumont

“ There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees. ”

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

“ I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ You have to erect a fence and say, "Okay, scale this.". ”

- Linda Ronstadt

“ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. ”

- Bible

“ Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres. ”

- David Coleman

“ What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ”

- Doris Lessing

“ No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ”

- George Santayana

“ Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. ”

- Joe Biden

“ It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? ”

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

“ Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time. ”

- Voltaire

“ Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public. ”

- Ada Leverson

“ Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, and when you have it, you have it all over. ”

- Elvis Presley

“ Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. ”

- Taisen Deshimaru

“ It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ We're about moderation. ”

- Jenny Craig

“ We're a few good breaths away from being back at a lower unemployment rate. ”

- Jeff Taylor

“ With debt servicing ratios at record highs, house prices likely to remain soft and petrol prices stressing some household budgets a sharp resurgence in consumer spending seems unlikely. ”

- Bill Evans

“ Little steps are being taken that may be in the right direction,... It's the rate of progress I'm concerned about. ”

- Richard Wagner

“ With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores, and third-rate conversation without one single pause: just like a young couple. ”

- William Plomer

“ God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ”

- Elbert Hubbard
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