Quotes About Measure

Me quedo perpleja como una criatura al ver que incluso en el amor hay que tener sentido común y noción de la medida.

And it irritated me beyond all measure that a thought so enormous and ludicrous should return when my logic had dismissed it.

Though a share of all remembering, a measure of all memory, is breath and breathe you have to create a truce - a truce with the patience of a stethoscope.

Though a share of all remembering, a measure of all memory, is breath and to breathe and to breathe you have to create a truce— a truce with the patience of a stethoscope.

Every vial of blood is no measure for every sacrifice that you make if the sacrifices are not instilled for freedom and human dignity.

The only battlefield where victory Is measured by the victim's ecstasy, And one soft cry is worth a city burning.

the application of effort should always be exactly measured: nothing by force, everything by logical progression.

D-Day was my first time in combat. I was mentally prepared and felt that I had done everything necessary to prepare myself for this precise moment. And yet you never know if you will measure up as a leader until the minute arrives when you face the enemy for the first time. Baptism by fire is a soldier's sacrament. There is always doubt. Hopefully, in combat, you perform as you train.

One would never discover the limits of soul, should one traverse every road so deep a measure does it possess

The gospel gives us a standard by which we can judge phenomena and events; it is an absolute measure which enables us to determine the value of the present life; it is a guide to show us the way in the labyrinth of the present world; it raises us above time, and teaches us to view all things from the standpoint of eternity.

Some people, under certain circumstances, hide their true emotions under exaggeration and hyperbole, not realizing their amplified caricature reveals the exact measure of the feelings it was meant to conceal.

At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle be sparing.

In these matters, the cardinal says, there is no measure of time; these spirits slip from our hands and through the ages, serpentine, mutable, sly.

So you may say, Greek flower; Greek ecstasy Reclaims Forever One who died Following Intricate Song's lost Measure.

I confess, when I propose a certain measure of policy, it is not enough for me that I do not intend anything evil in the result, but it is incumbent on me to show that it has not a tendency to that result.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

It wasn't the first film to show a kind of alternate vision of suburbia, but it left an indelible impression, I think, on everybody, and all films like that will forever be measured against 'Blue Velvet.'

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.

It pains me to think how much you are worth now. I can't tell you that. If you can count it, you haven't got any.

Said Pinocchio's lover, midst sighs, My puppet's technique takes the prize. He gives me full measure Through dishonest pleasure: I sit on his face and he lies.

The measure of a man is, does he know how to love.

The measure of a man is, does he know how to love. Clement Sills knew how to love. That's what he did. That's what he taught every single one of us who were lucky enough to know him.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.