Quotes About Measure

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.

Israel owed some measure of its success to the Arabs, to their hostility that helped galvanize an otherwise factious society.

Among human beings, vocabulary was considered the best measure of intelligence.)

No single intervention would stop a flu-like disease in its tracks, just as no single safety measure would prevent a doctor from replacing the right hip when it was the left hip that hurt. The trick was to mix and match strategies in response to the nature of the disease and the behavior of the population. Each strategy was like another slice of Swiss cheese; enough slices, properly aligned, would hide the holes.

I don't measure people by whether they agree with me or not. I measure them by their sincerity. Sincerity, with as much reality as you can get. Sincerity with toughness, experience, and understanding of the issue - real understanding, not just academic and intellectual understanding. That takes some courage.

If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's government in relation to the size of our economy.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

I love you, and you're the measure of my wrath. Declan.

The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. --Slavoj Zizek

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

Ne quid nimis

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.