Quotes by Yardsticks Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received. Aamir Khan yardsticks office helping We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality. A.J. Cronin providence yardsticks divine Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul. Ann Voskamp beaten yardsticks soul For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. Barbara Walters cuba yardsticks earth The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. Breyten Breytenbach yardsticks government rights justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation. Carson McCullers chimera yardsticks justice The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick. Dainin Katagiri realizing yardsticks spiritual Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick. Dee Hock surrender yardsticks secret To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick. Dorothy L. Sayers yardsticks complaining men Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement. Fausto Cercignani yardsticks judgement people What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it. James Branch Cabell yardsticks doe men Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted. Jasper Fforde yardsticks taken sometimes The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals Jimmy Swaggart ministers moral yardsticks Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. Joseph Brodsky yardsticks language world There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. Karl Lehmann agency yardsticks church If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. Khalil Gibran yardsticks association men the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another. Laura Huxley receiver giver yardsticks Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. Lennart Meri yardsticks ties lost Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness. Paramahansa Yogananda wealth yardsticks success A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people. Peter Drucker communicate yardsticks people 12»
