Measure Quotes

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

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

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.

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

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

Might was the measure of right.

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

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.