Quotes About Measure

You'll still need leaders, and stimulus, and a world symbol." (That's the basic emptiness in us today: we haven't found a symbol. We have no myth, no dream. 'Man is the measure of all things'—well, when the measure is bigger than everything else, what good is it?) "We're still pretty small potatoes." Mandelbaum gestured at the window and the bluely glimmering sky.

Death is the only vantage point from which a life can be truly measured.

Seu antagonismo tinha a medida exata da sua antiga harmonia, mas enquanto a harmonia havia sido atemporal, sem peso, o antagonismo ocupava espaço e tempo.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.

Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service.

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits, I ask myself, Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more? Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never lowered it (Matthew 5:27–28).

But He did say, in effect, that if you test His claims by the same measure that you legitimately substantiate other facts, you will find HIm and His teaching thoroughly trustworthy.

The fault of this country is the want of measure in political life. Flat acquiescence in illegality, followed by sanguinary reaction—that, senores, is not the way to a stable and prosperous future.

When those who seem to be out competing oneself are foreigners, the inclination to say that they are engaging in unfair competition irresistible: to argue otherwise is to suggest that one simply doesn't measure up.

It was as if she had thought him into existence again, as if her mind were a flask into which had been poured a measure of longing, a measure of discontent, a measure of fatigue, a dash of bitterness, and pouf, there he stood.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

In His grace, God gives you and me a measure of faith to get us going—but it's not all we'll need to finish the race, not even close. That we must gather and collect along the way. He designed life like this to keep our hearts teachable and compliant with His heart.

The similarity was reassuring: the pupil was a good measure of the physical arousal that accompanies mental effort, and we could go ahead and use it to understand how the mind works.

Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.

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

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.