We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.
The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.
My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction. . much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.
Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.
