Weighed Measured Quotes

#1. I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.

Arthur Eddington

#3. I call it the "Fuck up, own up, and get up" policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn't make them worse.

Penelope Douglas

#4. I ate in silence, listening to the rustle of his clothes being donned, trying to think of ice baths, of infected wounds, of toe fungus - anything but his naked body, so close ... and the bed I was sitting on.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. Mummy weighed sweets and nuts so that everyone would get exactly the same amount. During the year, everything is measured roughly, but at Christmas, it has to be absolutely fair. That's why it's such a strenuous time.

Tove Jansson

#6. With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

S.J. Watson

#7. You can rely on corporate funded researchers to cover up inconvenient truths.

Steven Magee

#8. Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

Fritjof Capra

#9. But she knew the black hole pulled at you. You stand up to it, or you go down.

Charles Frazier

#10. Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

Bill Gates

#11. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

Marty Rubin

#13. Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

Joan Lindsay

#14. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

#15. In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.

Mike Krieger

#16. Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life's experience in the plurality of existence and measured in a love shared?

Don Swann II

#17. The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#18. We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.

Carolina Herrera

#19. Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

Ted Koppel

#20. I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ...

Jimmy Buffett

#21. Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.

Philippe Kahn

#22. The ancient Egyptians believed the god Anubis met each of us on the other side, and that he stood before a great scale on which our hearts were set. There each was weighed, tested, for its worth.
Was this the heart I wanted measured?

Victor LaValle