Quotes About Gauges

#1. I saw the misadjusted dials and the whirling gauges and the bubbling green fluid and the electricity arcing around, and a story laid out for me, my sorry self alchemically transmuted into power and robots and fortresses and orbital platforms and costumes and alien kings.

Austin Grossman

#2. Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Anton Chekhov

#3. After noticing the fuel gauges were reading near empty, I looked out the top window, and I could see the fuel cap was being dragged along in the slipstream by its anchoring chain. Since the top of the wing was a low-pressure area, it had sucked my fuel right out and overboard. So,

Tom Brion

#4. Brain's got all kinds of gauges. You can know you're blind even when you're not; you can know you can see, even when you're blind. And yeah, you can know you don't exist even when you do. It's a long list, commissar. Cotard's, Anton's, Damascus disease. Just for starters.

Peter Watts

#5. He put an arm around me and helped me across the lawn into the passenger's seat. The inside was red and white as a strawberry sundae, with black analog gauges. It was inefficient and sprawling; it screamed of hubris and excess and obsolescence; it was America on wheels.

Mishell Baker

#6. What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

John Steinbeck

#7. Do not allow yourself to be a thermometer which gauges the temperature, rather be a thermostat which changes your environment.

Asa Don Brown

#8. They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

Dr. Dre

#9. Once the tears started she didn't know how to stop them. Words and tears - they were the twin gauges of her mental health that took over when she lost control, one drying up, the other oozing from her without consent. She

Sonali Dev

#10. The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.

Robert Grudin

#11. His voice cracked with the strain, and they stood looking at each other in the whiteness and the emptiness, and Harry felt they were as insignificant as insects beneath that wide sky.

J.K. Rowling

#12. It's this weird thing that I always feel like I have to gauge in myself, like, "Don't come on too strong because you won't get your way."

Kristen Stewart

#13. The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Cesare Pavese

#14. Frenzied activity is no gauge of spirituality

Fraser Young

#15. The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

Charlotte Beers

#16. It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives.

Tao Lin

#17. A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

Richard Ayoade

#18. Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.

Owen Pallett

#19. Spirituality is NOT the gauge at which we should measure our humanity.

Steve Maraboli

#20. Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.

Terry Rossio

#21. You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

Jeff Olson

#22. I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

Chris Tomlin

#23. Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry ... makes people compete for the attention.

Robert Greene

#24. The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market ... The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.

Murray Rothbard

#25. We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

Dan O'Brien

#26. Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#27. Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

Alice Temperley

#29. Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Ambrose Bierce

#30. Alan Lafley, who runs Procter & Gamble, apparently says: "A measure of a person's power is that their circle of influence is greater than their circle of control.

Julia Middleton

#31. I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but so I get what is or isn't working for moviegoers.

Wesley Morris

#32. You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

Eric Hoffer

#33. You have beautiful hair ... and she reached out to touch it, her bejeweled fingers gently caressing my head. A tear slipped down my cheek. I knew how the lepers felt when Jesus touched them and made them whole again.

Lynn Austin

#34. Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

Hudson Taylor