To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
~By Gerald Vann ~
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
~By Andy Warhol ~
A man's measure is his will.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
~By Anna Howard Shaw ~
I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.
~By Chris Chocola ~
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.
~By Ken Calvert ~
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
~By Dora Russell ~
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
~By Dinah Maria Mulock ~
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
~By Sallust ~
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
~By Eric Hobsbawm ~
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
~By Mencius ~
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
~By Felix Adler ~
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
~By Abu Bakr ~
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
~By John Strachan ~
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
~By Steve Nash ~
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~By William Henry Harrison ~
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
~By John Bright ~
In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
~By William Falconer ~
But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
~By Anton Seidl ~
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
~By Germaine Greer ~
To measure the man, measure his heart.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
~By Hesiod ~
I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago.
~By Tom Ridge ~
First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.
~By Elena Kagan ~
Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
~By George Washington ~
The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
~By Soichiro Honda ~
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
~By Mary McAleese ~
Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
~By Michael Korda ~
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
~By Chaim Potok ~
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
~By Karl Marx ~
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.
~By John Hutton ~
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
~By John L. Phillips ~
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
~By Georg Buchner ~
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
~By William Godwin ~
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
~By Daniel Webster ~
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
~By Zelda Fitzgerald ~
Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
~By David Hilbert ~
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
~By Enrico Fermi ~
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
~By Ninon de Lenclos ~
During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
~By Christie Hefner ~
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
~By Doug Coupland ~
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
~By Paul Tillich ~
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.
~By William Vickrey ~
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
~By Gabriel Marcel ~
The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us.
~By Peter Barnes ~
In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
~By Horst Koehler ~
Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.
~By Johannes Stark ~
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
~By Robert Kiyosaki ~
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
~By Mike Ditka ~
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
~By H. G. Wells ~
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
~By Susan Sontag ~
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.
~By Ann Veneman ~
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
~By Vernon Howard ~
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
~By J. G. Holland ~
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
~By Antony Hewish ~
I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.
~By David Spade ~
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
~By Susan George ~
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
~By Davy Crockett ~
We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
~By Karl Marx ~
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
~By George Bancroft ~
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
~By Benjamin Hoff ~
Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
~By Alexander John Ellis ~
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
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