242 Quotes on Measure

• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

  Author: Peter Zarlenga

• Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

  Author: Frank Wright

• Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

  Author: James Woods

• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  Author: John Wooden

• But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

  Author: William Wilson

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  Author: E. Wilson

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  Author: Walt Whitman

• Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

  Author: John Whiting

• Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

  Author: Benjamin Whichcote

• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

  Author: H. Wells

• The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

  Author: H. Wells

• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  Author: H. Wells

• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

  Author: George Washington

• I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

  Author: John Warner

• There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

  Author: Charles Warner

• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

  Author: Gerald Vann

• Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  Author: Samuel Ullman

• It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.

  Author: Margaret Truman

• All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.

  Author: Charlie Trotter

• Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

  Author: Mother Teresa

• I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

  Author: Allen Tate

• A man's measure is his will.

  Author: Ali Talib

• Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  Author: Tacitus

• For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

  Author: John Sweeney

• And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

  Author: Charles Sturt

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  Author: Bart Stupak

• One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

  Author: John Strachan

• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

  Author: Al Stewart

• The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

  Author: Stanley Stevens

• The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

  Author: Stanley Stevens

• A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

  Author: Laurence Sterne

• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

  Author: Art Spiegelman

• In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

  Author: Robert South

• Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

  Author: Robert South

• If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

  Author: Bishop South

• That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

  Author: Tony Snow

• The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

  Author: Roy Smith

• City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

  Author: L. Smith

• No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

  Author: Charles Simeon

• Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

  Author: William Sherman

• I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

  Author: Anna Shaw

• There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

  Author: Silvan Shalom

• It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

  Author: Ben Shahn

• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

  Author: Anton Seidl

• You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  Author: Patricia Schroeder

• Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

  Author: Anne Schaef

• Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  Author: George Santayana

• Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

  Author: Sallust

• I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  Author: J. Rowling

• The slum is the measure of civilization.

  Author: Jacob Riis

• We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

  Author: Herbert Read

• What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

  Author: Satyajit Ray

• Man is the measure of all things.

  Author: Protagoras

• It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

  Author: Chaim Potok

• The measure of a man is what he does with power.

  Author: Plato

• Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.

  Author: John Phillips

• Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.

  Author: John Phillips

• You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

  Author: Alan Perlis

• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  Author: Frances Perkins

• Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

  Author: Anna Pavlova

• I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

  Author: George Patton

• Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

  Author: Abraham Pais

• If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

  Author: Robert Owen

• There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

  Author: Robert Owen

• As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

  Author: Andre Norton

• I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

  Author: Donald Norman

• You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

  Author: Earl Nightingale

• One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

  Author: Sarojini Naidu

• Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

  Author: Dinah Mulock

• The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

  Author: Daniel Moynihan

• We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

  Author: Paul More

• The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

  Author: Daniel Moran

• There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.

  Author: Kelly Miller

• Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

  Author: Lennart Meri

• It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

  Author: Dmitri Mendeleev

• I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

  Author: Phyllis McGinley

• The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

  Author: Bryant McGill

• The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

  Author: Mary McAleese

• And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

  Author: Jane Mayer

• As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

  Author: Mary Mastrantonio

• You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

  Author: Orison Marden

• But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

  Author: Murray Mann

• In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.

  Author: Murray Mann

• Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

  Author: Sydney Madwed

• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• How do you measure your value?

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

  Author: John Lyly

• Might was the measure of right.

  Author: Marcus Lucan

• Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

  Author: James Lovelock

• Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

  Author: Christopher Love

• You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

  Author: Walter Lord

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  Author: Haniel Long

• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  Author: Vince Lombardi

• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  Author: John Lennon

• Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

  Author: Nigella Lawson

• Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

  Author: Peter Latham

• Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

  Author: John Larson

• Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

  Author: Ann Landers

• The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

  Author: Charles Lamb

• What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

  Author: Jack LaLanne

• You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

  Author: Jack LaLanne

• For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

  Author: Charles Kuralt

• Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

• It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

  Author: Michael Korda

• The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

  Author: Michael Korda

• The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

  Author: Felix Klein

• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.

  Author: Aly Khan

• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  Author: Patrick Kennedy

• The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

  Author: Lord Kelvin

• Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

  Author: Elia Kazan

• If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

  Author: Elena Kagan

• To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

  Author: Elena Kagan

• True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.

  Author: Mary Jones

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

  Author: Jesse Jackson

• If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

  Author: Lance Ito

• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  Author: Lance Ito

• One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

  Author: Gwen Ifill

• Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

  Author: John Hutton

• We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

  Author: Asa Hutchinson

• There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

  Author: Leigh Hunt

• Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

  Author: Joseph Hume

• Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

  Author: J. Holland

• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  Author: Abbie Hoffman

• In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

  Author: Thomas Hobbes

• While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

  Author: David Hilbert

• A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

  Author: Cullen Hightower

• The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

  Author: Cullen Hightower

• Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

  Author: Hesiod

• Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

  Author: Keith Henson

• The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

  Author: Arthur Henderson

• We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

  Author: Friedrich Hayek

• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  Author: Vaclav Havel

• Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

  Author: Thomas Hardy

• Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

  Author: Dag Hammarskjold

• Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

  Author: Robert Hamilton

• How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

  Author: Edward Hall

• Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

  Author: Albert Gyorgyi

• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

  Author: Germaine Greer

• The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

  Author: Alan Greenspan

• When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

  Author: Temple Grandin

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  Author: Nadine Gordimer

• The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

  Author: William Glasser

• In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

  Author: Alberto Giacometti

• How does one measure the success of a museum?

  Author: Paul Getty

• What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

  Author: Susan George

• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  Author: Harold Geneen

• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

  Author: Galileo Galilei

• For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

  Author: Marie France

• Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

  Author: Robert Fortune

• To measure the man, measure his heart.

  Author: Malcolm Forbes

• The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

  Author: Suzanne Fields

• I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

  Author: Brian Ferneyhough

• The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

  Author: William Falconer

• One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

  Author: Clifton Fadiman

• The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

  Author: Ernst Engel

• Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

  Author: Michael Ende

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

  Author: Alexander Ellis

• The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

  Author: Pliny Elder

• We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

  Author: Lawrence Durrell

• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

  Author: John Dulles

• Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

  Author: Frederick Douglass

• Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

  Author: Camille Desmoulins

• Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

  Author: Peter DeFazio

• In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

  Author: Gerard Debreu

• I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

  Author: Angela Davis

• A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

  Author: Francis Crick

• In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

  Author: Ralph Cram

• It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

  Author: Andrew Cohen

• No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

  Author: Albert Claude

• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Author: Arthur Clarke

• The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

  Author: Ramsey Clark

• I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

  Author: Chris Chocola

• I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

  Author: Shirley Chisholm

• Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

  Author: Michael Chertoff

• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  Author: Gary Cherone

• The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

  Author: Malcolm Chazal

• Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

  Author: Willa Cather

• One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

  Author: James Casey

• In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

  Author: John Carver

• It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

  Author: Stephen Cambone

• The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

  Author: Ken Calvert

• Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

  Author: Joseph Butler

• Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

  Author: James Buchan

• Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

  Author: John Bright

• Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

  Author: Jorge Borges

• The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

  Author: William Booth

• This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need.

  Author: Jo Bonner

• At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.

  Author: Kit Bond

• The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

  Author: William Blake

• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  Author: Harry Blackmun

• As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

  Author: Jeremy Bentham

• It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

  Author: Jeremy Bentham

• Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

  Author: Michael Behe

• Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

  Author: Jean Baudrillard

• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

  Author: Saint Basil

• People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

  Author: Albert Bandura

• The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

  Author: George Bancroft

• The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

  Author: George Bancroft

• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  Author: Abu Bakr

• Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

  Author: Richard Bach

• And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

  Author: Richard Attenborough

• All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

  Author: Walter Annenberg

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  Author: B. Ambedkar

• In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

  Author: James Allen

• We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

  Author: Felix Adler

• It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

  Author: Alfred Adler

• To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

  Author: Joseph Addison

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