Measure Quotes

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

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

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

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.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.