Measured Quotes

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us.

You're measured by championships no matter what.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

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?

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

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

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

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.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.