Equal Measure Quotes

#1. I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

Charles Kennedy

#2. I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.

Lauren Groff

#3. Luck, though, as Billy had said it so many times, was like lightning
it struck sinners and saints in equal measure, and it did to on its time-table, not yours.

Barry Lyga

#4. If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.

Kate DiCamillo

#5. I can't go on like this. I'm not the guy who cheats on his girlfriend wishing all the time she was someone else."
Elation and fear washed over me in equal measure. "Cam, I ... "
"You want this. I know you do.

Samantha Young

#6. Introduction to Amanda. - The equal measure of fear and desire her double-barrelled bust induced was plain to see. It might have been a mundane observation but it was something of an epiphany to Amanda just what it meant to be the only person in the room wearing a bra.

Francine Scott

#7. The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.

Charles Kennedy

#8. History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Rick Perlstein

#9. You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.

Laurence Fox

#10. Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure.

Sarah Ockler

#11. Love and loss come in equal measure.

Kate Lord Brown

#12. The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.

Peter Milligan

#13. Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

Seneca The Younger

#14. I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

Douglas Carter Beane

#15. On a fulcrum in my chest, grief and relief are balanced in equal measure.

Nayomi Munaweera

#16. If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

Nelson Mandela

#17. Isn't it the rarest thing? Never mind the whale migrations, or total eclipses of suns and moons: love that lasts, and is returned in equal measure, is the rarest thing she knows of.

Susan Fletcher

#18. Justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

Carson McCullers

#19. The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

Odilon Redon

#20. If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.

Kathleen Kent

#21. While my stuff is decreasing, what matters is increasing in equal measure.

Jen Hatmaker

#22. Can this be love that twists and tears the heart so? Does love give nothing but the power to hurt each other? Is this what makes the simplest touch blend longing and terror in equal measure? Whatever this is, it feels like a mortal wound.

Juliet Marillier

#23. Commitment ... something which is loved and hated in equal measure.

Kiran Joshi

#24. The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Felix Klein

#25. What Secrist's findings really show is that businesses are much more like the cities in Wisconsin. Superior management and business insight play a role, but so does plain luck, in equal measure.

Jordan Ellenberg

#26. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

Yann Martel

#27. Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. "Kiss me," she said. "Please.

Cassandra Clare

#28. Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

Margaret Way

#29. In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.

Nelson Mandela

#30. Justice always whirls in equal measure.

William Shakespeare

#31. Our parents met at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at a high school summer science camp. "I'd come to see the heavens," our father always said. "But the stars were in her eyes," a line that used to please and embarrass me in equal measure. Young geeks in love.

Karen Joy Fowler

#32. So this was how it was going to be, was it? This love business, so difficult on the emotions yet so joyous to experience. I liked it and hated it in equal measure.

Harlem Dae

#33. It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#34. The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Ron Suskind

#35. All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Leo Tolstoy

#36. There is no greater ache than this: guilt and regret in equal measure.

Nathan Hill

#37. We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#38. For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

Kathleen McGowan

#39. Cats hate doors for the opportun ities doors deny them to do exactly what they please, but they love them in equal measure, due to the opportunities they present to make humans their snivelling slaves.

Tom Cox

#40. Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's not just enough to know when to fight, but to know when to lay down the sword and negotiate. Not everything in the world is worth fighting for.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.

Ralph Marston

#42. Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure.

Diane Setterfield

#43. Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

Roxane Gay

#44. Like my entire generation, I seem to be drawn toward the Internet's fluttering promise of connections, and then repulsed by it, in equal measure. And I feel that, in the end, the Internet will win.

Anonymous

#45. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

Michelle Richmond

#46. We're both clever and stupid in equal measure.

Brian Cox

#47. It was the sexual chemistry I wanted more of. It was electric. I'd forgotten what it was like to be with someone who excited you in every sense of the word, who thrilled and frightened you in equal measure.

Lucy Robinson

#48. I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

Moby

#49. Sad as it seems, I miss both the flies and Ma with equal measure.

Barry Napier

#50. Love will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure.

Neil Gaiman

#51. The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#52. I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.

Nick Harkaway

#53. A man both handsome and repulsive in equal measure-as if his good looks were plastered over a rotten centre, a hero's face with a henchman's heart.

Tom Rob Smith

#54. But here, as of riches, it is indisputable that the greatest fame does not bring with it any equal measure of gratification.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#55. All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.

Charlie Trotter

#56. What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

Satyajit Ray

#57. Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was
to Plato and who else?
The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!

Robert Musil

#58. This love business, so difficult on the emotions yet so joyous to experience. I liked and hated it in equal measure.

Harlem Dae

#59. It destroys and resurrects in equal measure. It's paradigm shifting. The man I was before Nada has perished and left a changeling who is lost in the delicate art of awe and humble appreciation.

Poppet

#60. There's no greater gift than a love returned in equal measure.

Lorraine Heath

#61. So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

Gregory Maguire

#62. I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

Erica Brown

#63. A king who is renowned for mercy," said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.

Rachel Neumeier

#64. Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

Larry Hagman

#65. People in the U.K. absolutely love my character in 'Downton,' and in equal measure, people absolutely hate him, and that's all I wanted.

Tom Cullen

#66. Megadeath: a unit of measure equal to one million human casualites

David Bukszpan

#67. We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

Anthony Liccione

#68. Aam AAM, noun [Chaldee for a cubit, a measure containing 5 or 6 palms.] A measure of liquids among the Dutch equal to 288 English pints.

Noah Webster

#69. I guess I felt straight when I was allowed to get married. Now I feel queerer because I'm not. It's the only thing that's changed. I wouldn't measure it in icon status or how much my demographic has changed, but in the rage I feel, and being not equal.

Sia Furler

#70. The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food ... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

Ernst Engel

#71. The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?

Ravi Zacharias

#72. We are all equal in that we can all strive to become the best we are capable of becoming. We can always improve but we shouldn't compare ourselves to others. We get in trouble when we start trying to measure up to someone else.

John Wooden

#73. It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#74. There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

Heraclitus

#75. I'm in love with her and I'm in love with Maxwell. I don't know if it's equal. How do you measure how much you love someone? If they were both hanging off a cliff and I could only choose one, I'd join them on the cliff and hope we could go together. I can't divide myself from them.

Amelia LeFay

#76. ANKER (A'NKER) n.s.[ancker, Dut.] A liquid measure chiefly used at Amsterdam. It is the fourth part of the awm, and contains two stekans: each stekan consists of sixteen mengles; the mengle being equal

Samuel Johnson