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1 " A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff. "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
2 " I had felt the shot coming; I hadn’t realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition? "
― Rachel Hartman , Seraphina (Seraphina, #1)
3 " Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. "
― Carl Sagan , Contact
4 " In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination? "
― Martin Guevara Urbina , Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realitites and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century
5 " All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I’m having a hard time understanding why I am where I am? "
6 " The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust were able to consume more calories than their overly disgustable cousins while consuming fewer dangerous microbes than their insufficiently disgustable cousins. "
― Jonathan Haidt , The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
7 " That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses. "
― Rohinton Mistry , A Fine Balance
8 " The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism! "
― Joyce Carol Oates , A Widow's Story
9 " Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old. "
