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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. -- Ambrose Bierce
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I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years. -- Mohsin Hamid
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. -- Timothy Ferriss
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. -- Arthur Smith
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. -- Ramana Maharshi
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge. -- Dick Dale
It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues. -- Scarlett Johansson
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. -- Lance Loud
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
Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales. -- Jerry Cantrell
I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character -- P. C. Cast
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has. -- Roger Penrose
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal? -- Mindy Kaling
... I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it ... -- Billy Gibbons
...the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation, sometimes better than kiss itself. -- Stephenie Meyer
Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire. -- John Updike
I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on. -- Devon Werkheiser
If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes -- Eddie Van Halen
Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state. -- Hamza Yusuf
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. -- Isabel Allende
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Do not allow yourself to be a thermometer which gauges the temperature, rather be a thermostat which changes your environment. -- Asa Don Brown
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. -- Anton Chekhov
Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him. -- E. J. Dionne

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