Measure Quotes

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

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.

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.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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.

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.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

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.

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.