Measure Quotes

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.
James Wood

Evil, Self, Sometimes

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Bishop Robert South

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.
Margaret Spellings

Year, Seen, Actual

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.
John L. Phillips

Around, Behind, Exercise

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.
John L. Phillips

Small, Moon, Within

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
Benjamin Whichcote

Good, Evil, Else

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
Sheila Jackson Lee

Failure, Republican, Majority

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.
Peter DeFazio

Women, Men, War

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.
Elena Kagan

Legal, Long, Integrity

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.
Elena Kagan

Respect, Decisions, Show

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South

Against, Needs, Temptation

I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
Tim Ferriss

Money, Business, End

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

Change, Time, Passing

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

Two, Line, Rule

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
Cybill Shepherd

Success, True, Written

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.
Jane Mayer

Stress, Everything, Through

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
Justin Long

Success, Happiness, Business

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.
Paul Bremer

Good, Hard, Free

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.
Brendon Burchard

Life, Best, Left

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
Bob Parsons

Business, Important, Everything

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

Between, State, Israel

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
Cullen Hightower

Success, True, Others

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

Success, True, Others

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.
James Woods

Evil, Self, Sometimes

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.
Simon Armitage

Time, Free, Again

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
Lennart Meri

Time, Lost, Another

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
Edward T. Hall

Nothing, Against, Talent

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.
Richard Schiff

Happen, Tough, Sometimes

Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
Bart Stupak

Money, Why, Fighting

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun

High, Fraud, Costs

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