Measure Quotes

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

The slum is the measure of civilization.

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

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

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

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.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

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.

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

How do you measure your value?