Measured Quotes

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.