Quotes About Measure

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Inch for inch, the 6-foot-3 Westbrook is the NBA's most sensationally talented player, a relentlessly explosive basket-attacker with a deadly pull-up jumper - a top-10 NBA player by any big-picture statistical measure from Player Efficiency Rating to Win Shares.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

She took a mixing bowl from the cupboard, and a cloth bag from a shelf, measured out a handful

Well, I heard a lot of the hours struck

If we believe men have any personal rights at all, then they must have an absolute moral right to such a measure of good health as society can provide.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many. - Which Macabre

Being with you, and not being with you, is the only way I have to measure time. ~ BORGES ~

the lesson of a life can never be its own. Only the witness has power to take its measure. It is lived for the other only.

The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.

Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.

It's said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That's of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it's said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

Who can take the measure of a child? The Genie of the Arabian tale is nothing to him. He, too, may be let out of his bottle and fill the world. But woe to us if we keep him corked up.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.