Measures Quotes

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.