Quotes About Measure

For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients called "kosmos," that is to say ornate, since it is like a great animal on whom there shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members. And praised be our Creator who, as the Scriptures say, has decreed all things in number, weight, and measure.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

of schooling) with the gross national income per capita—but (not surprisingly) it correlates highly with the average per capita GDP, making the latter variable about as good a measure of the quality of life as the more elaborate index.

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The morality of the people—this is the measure of free, useful, creative labour.

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of paint on the canvas of a life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life. It starts early, this random procession of decisions.

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Like all Herondales, his ability to love without measure, without end, was both his great gift and his great curse.

Isn't that cheating? Tfu! She expects you to cheat! Masha, whom I love: These tasks do not test your strength or your wiliness; they test your ability to cheat, which is the truest measure of a devil. They are designed to be impossible if you play fair.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.

A plebe não quer a igualdade, mas o nivelamento. A igualdade poderia significar paridade na altura, enquanto os niveladores tendem para cortar tudo o que ultrapassa a sua medida: redução ao abjecto.

But the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists.

the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists.

Perhaps that's the first Survival Lesson we need to remember if we are to keep going: serious opposition is a measure of success. Women have been trained to measure our effectiveness in love and approval, not in conflict and resistance.

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

Don't ever let a recipe tell you how many chocolate chips to use. You measure that [$#*t] with your heart.

The measure of a man's truth is the measure of his love, and Truth is far removed from him whose life is not governed by Love.

wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

And the passion with which we loved the Lord was a measure of how deeply we feared and distrusted and, in the end, hated almost all strangers, always, and avoided and despised ourselves.

Entropy—already a difficult and poorly understood concept—is a measure of disorder in thermodynamics, the science of heat and energy.

The lexis is a measure of shared experience, which comes from interconnectedness. The number of users of the language forms only the first part of the equation: jumping in four centuries from 5 million English speakers to a billion.

The value of darkness can never be measuredif you don't break its cheap spell secretly treasured