Commensurable Quotes

#1. Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

Archimedes

#2. And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday ...

Bone Thugs And Harmony

#4. Books do pretend ... but squeezed in between is even more that is true - without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Matthew Pearl

#5. At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

Baz Luhrmann

#6. I am just at tragedy right now.

Tig Notaro

#7. The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

Frederic Reynolds

#8. The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#9. Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?"
The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake."
"What book?"
"It's The Shadow Death Lexicon."
"Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.

J.R. Ward

#10. You are lucky you are a writer because you will sort through this in ways other souls cannot; the bad part is you feel and see all of this in ways non-writers don't.

Ann Hood

#11. The summer had been like a dream, some parts of it a nightmare, but overall a good dream. Magic.

Elizabeth Kirke

#12. Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

John Hodgman

#13. Tanzie knew Nicky was thinking what she was thinking - that Mum had finally gone mad. But she had read somewhere that mad people were like sleepwalkers - it was best not to disturb them. So she nodded really slowly, like this was all making good sense.

Jojo Moyes

#14. One reason there are so many unhappy Christians is they feel God should be doing them favors and heaping upon them material rewards and benefits, rather than working as a Carpenter to shape their lives back into His own image.

Jamie Buckingham

#15. Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#16. Captain Future!" Ezra's faded eyes were agleam with hero worship. "The greatest feat of space pilotin' in history! No one else in the universe would even have tried it!

Edmond Hamilton