#measure

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true. ↗

— Cybill Shepherd

#amount #certain #certain extent #extent #i

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#man #measure #resemble #saints #scripture

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#extent #inner #measured #progress #real

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#bittersweet #heart #human #human spirit #kind

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight. ↗

— Delia Smith

#always #cooking #jug #measured #measuring

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#governments #health #measure #only #ought

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#class #days #even #few #future

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state? ↗

— John Strachan

#been #colonies #could #darkness #evident

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#already #course #dominated #drama #dramatic

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#evolution #his #history #individual #man