Measuring Stick Quotes

#1. A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

Elena Ferrante

#3. If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

Miles Davis

#4. We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

Rachel Held Evans

#5. The measuring stick of success in Hollywood is covered in shit at both ends

Dean Cavanagh

#6. I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

Jonathan Tropper

#7. There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

Paul J. Meyer

#8. Jesus himself provides the measuring stick by which we may know whether a teacher or practitioner of the Christian faith is genuine or fraudulent. "You shall know them by their fruit,

Brian Tubbs

#9. The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Vironika Tugaleva

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Donna Tartt

#11. How apostles are received is a key measuring stick as to how the Lord will release blessings or judgements on a territory. Apostles also have authority over the demonic rulers of a region. They have the ability to demonstrate supernatural power that draws a whole region to our life-giving God

Chuck Pierce

#12. When everything is said and done, God isn't going to say, "Well said," "Well thought," or "Well planned." There is one measuring stick: "Well done, good and faithful servant!"5

Mark Batterson

#13. Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

Todd Stocker

#14. The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

Jonathan Edwards

#15. Change won't happen because everyone wishes it happens. It happens only when people decide that we'll never stop digging until we find our gold.

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. Measuring time isn't as simple as adding or subtracting minutes from a clock...You must find your own measuring stick.

Lindsay Eagar

#17. If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.

Douglas Coupland

#18. When you can't see, you are only able to judge people by their character and integrity, not by the color of their skin, or by how they look and dress. What's inside a person's heart became my measuring stick. I can hear their hearts in their voices. Nobody can hide that from me.

Ed Lucas

#19. Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

Van Jones

#20. If you're fortunate to get a first album that sells 10 million you have nowhere to go but down. I'm just going to be honest and your measuring stick is so high that haters are licking their chops because you can't do nothing but fail.

Nelly

#21. The people who must believe they are white can never by your measuring stick.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#22. The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception.

Brian Reynolds