I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.
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.
Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.
If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine spiritual fire and is full of honest love and compassion, it has to be right there, in the eyes. The Dalai Lama's eyes sparkle and dance with laughter and unbridled love. The Pope's eyes are dark and glazed, bleak as obsidian marbles. Pat Robertson's eyes are rheumy and hollow, like tiny potholes of old wax. Goldman Sachs cretins, well, they don't use their own eyes at all; they just steal someone else's.
You're my depth gauge. If I see your hat floatin', I'll stop.
Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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?
I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.
You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.
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.
Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary.
In fact, my favorite Beatles song is "In My Life. " And from that, you can gauge that my friends mean so much to me. I love John Lennon, so it's kind of like moody. . . There's a lot you can gauge from that. As insignificant as it seems, as an actor, it's an interesting way to approach a character.
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
If you're on social media as a performer you can tell. If you don't get any Tweets you know it's bombed. I can pretty much gauge how it's doing by comparing the reception to shows I've done that have actual ratings.
I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.