Quotes About Measure

The Self is the measure of everything.

It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won't be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I'm an old guy.

A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying circumstances, how civilised they could be in a harsh world, that was the measure of a man.

here's no place like your own home on the range, but a good compadre's campfire is a close second. A pard doesn't mind if you think out loud. FMI our friends are the measure

My deepest fear is not that we are incompatible, My deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure of fire and fuel. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You're playing big will not serve the world, me being prideful did not serve me. KB

the British government considers a tax cut, almost all newspapers, no matter of what political tendency, describe the measure as giving money away—indulging in a handout, like a parent doling out a weekly allowance to children.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Hence, if the movement of the heavens lasted always, time would not be of its measure as regards the whole of its duration, since the infinite is not measurable; but it would be the measure of that part of its revolution which has beginning and end in time.

By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.

I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.

Time is not a field, to be measured in rods, nor a sea, to be measured in miles; it is a heart beat.

weigh the scale. I'd say

I measure my life out in books. You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?