Humameter Quotes & Sayings

Determining when not to overestimate and when not to underestimate is a crucial skill that is not easily acquired. But it's unspeakably important to be able to know when not to underestimate, for example, another person's affections towards you; but then also when not to overestimate the same thing. If only we could all have radar that could tune into these two measures of living, we'd name it something like "humameter" or "give-a-shit-o-meter." Either way, unnamed or named, I've learned that this is among the most important skills accomplishable by mankind. Insecurities should not be allowed to dictate how we determine the amount of value another person has placed on us; fears should not be let in to tell us how much or how little of worth we have in someone else's eyes. — C. JoyBell C.

When we exclude God from our intents and plans, we leave our "house of bread". — Sunday Adelaja

VI. If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot. — William Blake

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's a fact. Fear of the disease kills more people than the disease itself. So make the mind strong. After all, what is it that we are afraid of? One day we are going to die. If death comes, say, "Oh, you have come. You are going to take away this garb and get me a new one? Okay, take this and get me a new model." If you only have right understanding, there's no room for fear. — Swami Satchidananda

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, my god, this chick just mentioned MacGyver?
Hell.
Yes. — Colleen Hoover

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. — Wilhelm Dilthey

She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation to her, and her alone. — Donna Tartt

As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you've just to articulate exactly the way that you're exiled, exactly the way that you don't belong, exactly the way that you can't love, exactly the way that you can't move ... and you're on your way again. You're on your way home. If you can just say exactly the way that you're imprisoned - the door swings open. — David Whyte

Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is. — Thurman Arnold

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made. — James Costos

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. — Ezra Pound

I've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want. — Lee Norris