Quotes About Measure

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

I strongly support the bipartisan immigration measure previously passed by the Senate, and when I served in Congress I was proud to have helped introduce the House version of the bill. I also strongly support the DREAM Act.

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

Marcus closed his eyes and gave a faint, desperate groan. He wanted her. Not merely to bed her—though at the moment that was certainly his uppermost thought—but in other ways as well. He could no longer deny that for the rest of his life, he would measure every other woman against her, and find them all lacking.

Pride and resentment do not create bread that will rise. Bread, like a good life, can only be created by honest measure, patience, warmth, and time.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

Those were long odds. Really, really long odds. Ridiculously long odds, really. When you have to measure them in astronomical units, it probably isn't a good bet.

If knowing how clueless I am is the measure of wisdom, I am freaking Solomon, Walter Cronkite, and Judge Judy all rolled into one.

No, I really don't," I said. "That's the problem." "But you know that you do not know," Michael said. "Which is wise." I snorted. "If knowing how clueless I am is the measure of wisdom, I am freaking Solomon, Walter Cronkite, and Judge Judy all rolled into one." Sanya held up his hands with his fingers in a square, framing my face like a photographer. "Always thought you look more like a Judy.

My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.

God's approval should be your standard for success.

Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Single, taken, in a relationship; are all just terms. Your status is measured by your actions.

Life is a bank where everybody has deposited time but will never know the balance.

Do Englishmen like intellectual women?' she asked. 'Not if they have any sense, but they have such a high measure of tolerance that it's likely they endure such women out of sheer gallantry. It would be like kissing a Roget's Thesaurus!

I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!

for a time beyond measure there were no rooms and now many have forgotten the sky

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

There is only one way for any of us to resolve the tension between the high ideals of the gospel and the grim reality of ourselves: to accept that we will never measure up, but that we do not have to. We are judged by the righteousness of the Christ who lives within, not our own.