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.
Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.
We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.
What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!
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.
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.
Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals
The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
