Commensurately Quotes

#1. Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.

Kirk J. Schneider

#2. Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.

Morris Gleitzman

#3. (Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its epistemological status is so difficult to determine, challenged the writer to invent a commensurately sophisticated narrative technique.

Howard Kerr

#4. The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.

Jim Loehr

#5. I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself ... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.

Johnny Carson

#6. The kids of those that came here illegally, those kids, I think, should have a pathway to become a permanent resident of the United States and military service, for instance, is one way they would have that kind of pathway to become a permanent resident.

Mitt Romney

#7. This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. I like rules that make sense, not rules without logic.

Gillian Flynn

#9. Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose
to make people laugh.

W.C. Fields

#10. The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will work is the wisdom of balancing claims. That's my text - which side is injured? I support the man who supports their claims, not the virtuous upholder of the wrong.

George Eliot

#11. Self-made men often worship their creator.

Bryant H. McGill

#12. Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it - immediately and without compromise.

Billy Graham

#13. Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

Herman Melville

#14. I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

Marian Seldes

#15. You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

Sonia Sotomayor