Measure Quotes

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

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.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

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

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

How do you measure your value?

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.