Measure Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

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

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

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.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

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.

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

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.

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

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

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

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.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

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.

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.'

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

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

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.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

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.