Quotes About Measure

Poetry" is a word for a kind of value no particular poem can realize: the value of persons, the value of human activity beyond the labor/leisure divide, a value before or beyond price. Thus hating poetry can either be a way of negatively expressing poetry as an ideal [or] it can be a defensive rage against the mere suggestion that another world, another measure of value, is possible.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient.

Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

Very well. I think that you can see my point here—we avoid chaos, in building houses and dividing land and so forth, by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of length.

we can only avoid chaos in the world of human affairs by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of morality.

It was a measure of just how lost and lonely I was, in my exile, that I looked forward to fighting him.

Sin is a measure of evil.

The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

Oh yes I am thinking the human soul is a very slight thing, and not much evolution has gone into it I fear. It is a vague slight notion with not even a proper niche in the body. And yet is the only thing we have that God will measure.

Now the song is nearly over We may never find out what it means Still there's a light I hold before me You're the measure of my dreams

We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it's also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing in life can ever measure up, so I spend my life limping in its shadow.

Destiny is measured in inches.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

Time is the measure of that which changes.