Measure Quotes

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

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

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

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

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

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways:...

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something th...

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

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

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

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

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a rea...

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you ap...

What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but ...

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you ...

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

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of t...

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say t...

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless nig...

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

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

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

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

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have...

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself he makes t...

How does one measure the success of a museum?

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never tr...

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

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the s...

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a t...

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with o...

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrit...

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of ...

An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o...

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things...