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Quotes About Measure

She sat down again. "Oh, Dominic, love has no measure." "What?" "I mean, yes, please kiss me.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
He's a man who measures words as if he had only a few given to him by Fate; too generous a syllable from his lips, and he might fall over dead.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
there's only one part of a man's anatomy that any potential mate should worry about measuring, and that is the length of his vasopressin receptor gene.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
If you were queen of pleasure,And I were king of pain,We'd hunt down love together,Pluck out his flying feather,And teach his feet a measure,And find his mouth a rein.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Anything which can be counted is finite and will come to an end.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
~ Alice Sebold
I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted
~ Ally Carter
It might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule of universal application can be given, as all persons do not require the same measure of sleep, and also the same persons, at different times, according to the strength or weakness of their body, may require more or less.
~ George Muller
Consumer confusion is the result of many individual problems when it comes to website design and development services, but in a nutshell, it boils down to the rapid growth of the Web and the lack of competitive measure available.
~ Molly Holzschlag
There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
~ Elaine Welteroth
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
~ Deepak Chopra
By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud chapter of British history to an undignified end. In future the government will measure child poverty not by looking at whether they have any money, but by looking at their so-called 'life chances.'
~ Emily Thornberry
You can tailor garments all you want, but if it doesn't fit in the arms or legs, it never will.
~ Amar'e Stoudemire
I don't know how to measure success. I have been fortunate that I got exciting films to do and work with talented directors who brought out the best in me.
~ Alia Bhatt
Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?
~ Ashwin Sanghi
The course of learning is affected by intelligence, in Spearman's view, but it was not the thing in itself. Spearmanian intelligence was a measure of a person's capacity for complex mental work.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
It is not the ability to walk that pleases God, it is the desire to walk. The desire to do the right thing. The truest measure of a man is what he desires. The measure of that desire is seen in the actions that follow.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Because the Buchanan decision had made it "impossible to find an appropriate legal formula" for segregation, Freund said that zoning masquerading as an economic measure was the most reasonable means of accomplishing the same end.
~ Richard Rothstein
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.
~ Richard Yates
Janine Hathaway offered to be my guardian, " said Lissa suddenly. "Janine Hathaway?" Tatiana's eyebrows rose nearly to her hairline. "I'm sure she has other commitments. No, we've got much better choices." A better choice than Janine Hathaway? Not likely. Before Dimitri, my mother had been the gold standard by which I measured all badassedness.
~ Richelle Mead
Entropy is a measure of the deadness of a system. Negentropy or information is a measure of the liveliness of a system.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Zuviel ist gerade so falsch wie zuwenig.
~ Konfuzius