Gauge Quotations

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.

It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere.

You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

If you gauge how you're doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you're up a creek. You can't do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work and play the scene. And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardless of how people are responding, I'm going to tell the story.

The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.

more detailed field analysis of soil and water quality is needed to gauge the exact state of rehabilitation.

I wouldn't term it all as a directive. He just talked to him to kind of gauge how things are going.

One of the things it will be used for is to raise awareness among public-policy and economic-development officials of the strength and importance of Fairfield County and to gauge the concerns of Fairfield County businesses compared to what we've seen from other businesses across the state.

Now the question is, what is the pent up demand? Obviously, that's a difficult thing to gauge but I believe it is fairly significant from all the carrier checks I've done and RIM is clearly the still the market leader by a long shot and has the best products on the market.

Obviously the data today was very supportive of bonds. The unemployment report caught everyone by surprise. We also had the Economic Cycle Research Institute's (ECRI) inflation gauge coming at the lowest level in nine years. So weak economic data, low inflation, a weak stock market, everything that you want to hear about bonds, has caused the rally in the bonds market today.

Right now, I've got to gauge my body, ... You know, two-a-days are pretty tough on me professionally and athletically. I don't feel fatigued or sore. I just want to make sure we don't get to that point.

My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.

Semiconductors have sort of come on in terms of the number of filings. Now we have to watch these things price in order to gauge if there's any life in this group.

should allow investors to better gauge the impact from a potentially lumpy income stream.

Setting a new guidepost by the Bank of Japan is crucial. There are growing concerns in financial markets about how to gauge the Bank of Japan's next move after the conditions are met, including when it will start to raise rates.

Given the lack of trading volume, it's going to be hard to gauge any moves we make. We have a lot of data to get through.

I feel that it's in his best interests to put his name in the draft and gauge the interest of NBA people.

Given the new rules, economic conditions and number of contracts and payroll distractions, you have to keep tabs on kids who have been drafted. The kids who are eligible for the draft, this is a gauge for them, but it is just one of the things you use as part of your information process. I don't think it is something that can put a guy over the edge.

We make an estimate on what we think the new loan limit will be and base it on that. If we can gauge where the new loan limits will be we can pass on the benefits to consumers.

He hasn't responded to treatment as we would have liked. He will have an MRI scan this weekend to determine the extent of the inflammation and therefore the best course of management. Only then will we be able to gauge the likelihood of his availability for the second Test.

Going through the Federal Transit Administration process can take up to 10 to 15 years. So what we are doing today, what we are trying to accomplish at this stage, is to gauge what needs to be done now.

Just outwork your opponents. There is no way to gauge it, but I know I'm giving it the best I can. I can't do any better than that.

Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal.

Look, all I've told people is we have multiple offers. Beyond that it's really difficult to gauge the ebb and flow of negotiations. At no point have we said that there is a timetable. There isn't. Going through all these teams is a complex thing and it just wouldn't make sense to set a timetable. We might wait until after the meetings. We might not.

I was able to get back to the wall, get a gauge on it and I was actually almost kind of waiting on it to come down, make a good jump after it and bring it back.

I'm here trying to gauge my music and the ice and get into the season. Last season, we had the same plan, to build up slowly. This year, I just hope for better results at the end of the year.

I thought it was okay, pretty good. We pressured a lot from different places. As far as a straight four-man rush, in passing situations, it's hard to gauge that right now. We'll have to see.

I think the American people won by having a good opportunity to gauge these two men and they especially walked with a firm relocation of what they thought so highly of Dick Cheney during the Gulf War ... He was clearly in command tonight.

I think we're going to try and give them different looks and hopefully give them three different pitchers so that they're not going to be able to gauge their bats on who's pitching.

I think they are all possibilities. I can't gauge their likelihood right now because the law hasn't gone into effect yet, ... I think it has to go into effect on Sept. 1 and it has to remain in effect so we can see what those impacts are.

I think they're probably two of the best and quickest in the league coming off screens, changing speeds. They'll come off; they'll hesitate. Where Ben Gordon gets you is that second burst of the speed. We just didn't gauge their speed and square our shoulders.

Our trip to California this past weekend gave us the opportunity to test ourselves. The results were not what we hoped for, but now we have a gauge of our speed and an idea of what we can improve upon before the Childs Cup.

Our future schedule will work as a gauge to see how much we have improved.

I think the pitchers threw the ball a little better today, and that's always encouraging. It's just a buildup. I didn't learn anything today, though, that I didn't already know. But it is definitely a way to gauge where we are. So now we go forward from here. The enthusiasm and attitude around the clubhouse is high.

I think urban legends, whether true or not, are a pretty sensitive gauge of people's frustrations over things like gasoline prices. The situation in Iraq is frustrating to both pro and anti-war folks, and in some of the other realities of modern life you look for someone to blame, and you start at the top.

I think it's a great advantage. It allows you to get a gauge of where you're at, get some people healthy, either those who were injured in camp or in the game, and it allows you to settle into an academic routine.

That's what I've been preaching to them for the last eight years--that their job at the end of the day is not to gauge whether their actions are going to cause embarrassment or not, whether what we ask them to do is convenient, or consistent with safe decisions and smooth careers,

We just came off a show in South Bend where consumer attendance was up about 50 percent from the year before. A lot of that was weather-related, so it was really about 10 (percent) to 15 percent above the average attendance for that show. Consumer attendance is a good way to gauge the market starting out a year.

We haven't yet in either game played the kind of defense that we've played the whole year to get a gauge on how we can play against (Miami).

That way when it's time to hit the ground once the season is over, you're already off and running. The timing is never ideal in a coaching change. I talked to former coaches, NFL GMs, television folks. I picked people's brains and checked out the Internet to find out as much as I could. Indiana has time to do that. I didn't talk to any school or coaches but did hire a consultant to gauge the interest for us.

Miami and Fort Lauderdale is on the top of the list because not only is it one of the top worst traffic areas and fastest growing population, you've got a collision of these two factions. That's not going to get better sooner. What Traffic Gauge does is provide a solution where you can take what we have today and make it more efficient.

We don't comment on any deals that are in negotiations. I can't even give you a gauge of our interest. But we own and operate venues as part of our core business.

That was a nice way to finish. It's a difficult par-three and the wind was pretty hard to gauge and to be honest I was kind of guessing at what club to hit.

The problem with the Fed's focus on inflation is that it's really a lagging indicator. What you need to do is gauge what demand will be like down the road in order to determine future prices. And the bond market is focused on slowing growth.

The problem with the November employment numbers is hiring for the holiday season. It's hard to get a gauge of what it's going to be. They do a seasonal adjustment to the number to account for that, but the seasonal adjustment causes wider swings. And this year Thanksgiving came later in the month, so hiring might have started after the November data was collected.

There are no commitments beyond this year. We will gauge the demand and the business model to see if we have happy advertisers and happy consumers.

This program is a good test-bed for us, so we can gauge the popularity of these courses.

We use this as a gauge for the sectional two weeks later. We want to see where we are individually, where we need to be and how to go about getting there. Originally, this was our last regular-season event of the year, but we have added a tri-meet with (Dublin Jerome) and Big Walnut on Feb. 9 so that we have one last competition before sectionals.

The credit data, together with the TD-MI monthly inflation gauge for October suggest the Reserve Bank will leave interest rates unchanged,

We came here to gauge our level with other top sailors from the continent. What our sailors have achieved here at the end of the day is just amazing.

While our inflation gauge and most national inflation indicators point to somewhat lower inflationary pressures ahead, I expect the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee to raise interest rates at its next meeting on Jan. 31. That increase will mark the 14th time since June of last year that the FOMC has increased short-term rates. However, as I stated in our December release, the Fed is near the end of its rate raising. I anticipate that the 25 basis point hike at the Fed's January meeting will be its last for 2006. Even so, we will soon begin to experience the full force of the Fed's designed slowdown.

When people buy, rescue, or otherwise acquire a dog from unscrupulous breeders or amateur rescue groups, they are making a decision with ethical consequences. They have a profound responsibility to consider their actions; to gauge the dog's behavior, to train it thoroughly and rigorously, to protect other humans and dogs from harm.

When I was evaluating VTL solutions, I certainly did try to gauge what adverse impact, if any, was the host processor experiencing while trying to keep up with the enormous appetite for data of the virtual library.

This will be a gauge of our progress.

We think this was a move to gauge management and shareholder reaction and flush out other potential bidders.

We've got eight games left over three weeks, so I'm not too concerned. He'll tell me if he's tired, and I'll gauge accordingly. We're still not in (the playoffs). For me to take my foot off the pedal wouldn't be fair to anybody.

We're going to gauge reaction to the 101EX and take the car to shows around the world.

We're going to get a gauge of where we're at and what we need to work on.

Unfortunately, it's very hard to gauge if you're getting a savings.

We're better. If you want to gauge it, you gauge it at the end of the season. As long as we stay healthy, we're a better club.

We're in an enviable position. We have good young players, (high) draft picks and money to spend. Yet we're in last place in our division, so it's logical that people would call John and gauge if we're jittery and feel a need to make a big move. We happen to value our young players, and we're not gonna do anything silly.

We are looking forward to this weekend's meet. The University of New Mexico has a lot of great teams coming in, and we will use this as a gauge against teams we don't go up against week-in and week out during the year.

Eleven months of stats aren't enough to gauge anything.

Difficulties of seasonally adjusting the retail sector around year-end suggest that the two-month average -- about flat -- is a more reliable gauge of hiring trends.

Continuing education reform is very important, ... But the bottom line is we have to maintain a way to gauge or measure achievement, the MCAS exams, to justify spending so much more money that we did 10 years ago.

Continuing education reform is very important. But the bottom line is we have to maintain a way to gauge or measure achievement, the MCAS exams, to justify spending so much more money that we did 10 years ago.

Customers are buying it, but it is very, very early. This is a test to gauge customer reaction.

You have to gauge the risk to the inmate versus the risk to the inmate and officers when they go in to restrain him. This appears to be appropriate.

You have to get ready for all conditions or at least know what to change on the car to get it where you need it. I was happy on Thursday when it was a little cooler. We missed a little with the hot weather on Friday, but I felt with the hot weather (Saturday) that we were right on. I think we have a good gauge of where to go with the car.

We don't really know how business is. There is nothing to gauge it against, there is no one out there doing what we are doing.

Twenty-eight gauge is pretty uncommon here. But down there (in Texas) it's popular.

Everyone wants to judge us and gauge us on what happened in the past, but this is a totally different team. People have to realize that and we understand that. So there's no guarantee that we're going to go out there and do anything.

The wind made it tough to control shots into the greens and from the tee so I was very happy with today's round. With the wind doing what it's doing, it was hard to gauge what clubs to hit. A lot of times I was guessing, to be honest with you. They were the toughest conditions I've ever played in.

While the full impact is impossible to gauge at this time, it will clearly have an impact in the current quarter and beyond.

While time is needed to fairly and accurately gauge how well any president ranks with his predecessors, Bush starts with a ranking that could hardly be lower.

We've been calling it Super Tuesday. I spent an hour (Monday) just talking to our kids. I just wanted to get a gauge for where they're at heading into the match.

We've been debating this for quite some time. That one gauge at Branford basically monitored the whole system.

We want to use that game as an opportunity to gauge where we are at as a program. Then, when you look at how we recruit Houston, it's a win-win.

When you look at a team like Ottawa, to me that's a good gauge on your team and individuals. They still have the heaviest team in battles and competitiveness.

We always try to gauge what's happening with the wind but you can't always tell when it's going to pick up like that.

These are random and odds ways to gauge what the public thinks.

It would be a thrill to coach my grandson, but I gauge myself year-to-year with football,

We do physical exercises where he can gauge a little bit their physical toughness and their leadership and their commitment to it, but (now) he gets to coach real football. That's what's exciting.

We've had patience with the freshmen and look at it from a game-to-game standpoint. We're trying not to measure things just on wins and losses. We're trying to gauge improvement. We're building anew and it takes time. Rodney has really helped us at the point.

We've had a horrible spring because of the weather. This meet will be a gauge to where we are. We're looking to see improvement with our marks.

After I take my first lick on it, then I'll really be able to gauge it, ... But it's feeling real good.

Two of our first three games are going to be tough. It will be a good gauge for the kids to see exactly where they are. I am really looking forward to those two games to really set the tone and see where we are.

The Model is a kind of gauge that we use to help us detect trends in the market. Either we are seeing a real increase in the number of space systems being proposed or we are simply getting better at finding information on programs that are out there ... It's probably a little of both.

That's why it's best for him to go out on a month's loan and play first-team football. I can gauge where his fitness is while he's playing for Forest.

Although this is a key psychological level, the Dow Jones is a very narrow gauge and fundamentals are still weak.

They've been putting a lot of goals in the net. That'll be another big gauge of where we are right now.

There's going to be a little tournament within a tournament going on there. We'll get a good gauge there, playing against some of the top area teams.

I've always booked the theater with the idea of accommodating the unique needs of our groups. For example, the symphony can't be two weeks apart, and the theater groups all want to have three weekends per run ... the theater has always been scheduled with these things in mind, but we also have to gauge what the public is asking us to provide.

I usually need a few games to fully gauge where we're at and tell what we've got, but this group of seniors have matured so much since their junior year. They're a whole lot better at handling the pressure. We should be pretty good once we get going.

This is a festival of found objects. Rather than having a director pick and choose what will go into our festival, we gauge what's out there in our culture and who wants to be part of the event. Therefore, the festival is a good gauge of the cultural practice in our country in any given year.

This is a win-win situation for our kids. They'll experience playing in a great facility and get to see a beautiful city like Seattle. We'll also get to play a solid program and gauge where we're at as a team. Win or lose, it'll be a great trip.