Quotes About Measures

The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted.... [All that wise and good men can do is] to persevere in doing their duty to their country and leave the consequences to him who made men only; neither elated by success, however great, nor discouraged by disappointments however frequent or mortifying.

Public health measures lack the drama of pulling someone back from the edge of death, but they save lives by the millions.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

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

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

They live in a culture that measures success by the number of copies sold not the number of spirits touched. They have to shorten their sentences and compress their sentiments to the common bandwidth.

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

rather than increasing, corruption decreased. This was not achieved spontaneously, however; instead, a series of measures that were effective in tackling this vice were adopted. Transparency was introduced in law. All documents pertaining to the plan, including the selection of people who benefited from programs, accounts, and invoices were considered to be public documents, open and accessible to any citizen.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

También repasa su pensamiento político, informa sobre sus planes y medidas, regaña a ministros, insulta a sus opositores y defiende la obra de su gobierno.

Heraclitus mocked conventional religious belief, and held that the cosmos was its own maker and creator: "The Cosmos was not made by gods nor men, but always was, and is, and ever shall be, ever living fire, igniting in measures and extinguishing in measures.

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.