Measure Quotes

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.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

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.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

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

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

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.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

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.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

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.

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

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?