Measure Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

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.

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?

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.