Measure Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

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.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

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.

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.

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.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

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.

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

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.