Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
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 ~
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~By William Henry Harrison ~
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
~By Graham Norton ~
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
~By Joseph Butler ~
This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.
~By Tom McCall ~
You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
~By Jack LaLanne ~
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
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 ~
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 ~
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.
~By Paul Harris ~
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.
~By Martin Sheen ~
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
~By Bruce Feirstein ~
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 ~
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
~By John Wooden ~
That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
~By Tony Snow ~
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
~By Peter Latham ~
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
~By John Betjeman ~
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
~By Angela Merkel ~
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 ~
The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
~By William Glasser ~
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
~By John J. Sweeney ~
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
~By Roy L. Smith ~
It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
~By Margaret Truman ~
We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
~By Andre Norton ~
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
~By Origen ~
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
~By George III ~
One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.
~By Sarojini Naidu ~
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 ~
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
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 ~
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
~By Bob Woodward ~
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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.
~By Paul Bremer ~
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 ~
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 ~
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
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 ~
At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
~By Anita Roddick ~
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 ~
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
~By Charles Darwin ~
To measure the man, measure his heart.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
~By Ernst Engel ~
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.
~By Sun Ra ~
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
~By John Hull ~
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
~By Gary Cherone ~
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
~By Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ~
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
~By Carl D. Anderson ~
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 ~
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
~By Robert Bourassa ~
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
~By Carl Jung ~
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
~By John Warner ~
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
~By Angela Davis ~
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
~By Robert Fortune ~
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 ~
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.
~By Paul Hawken ~
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 ~
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
~By Camille Paglia ~
Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
~By Alexander John Ellis ~
By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation.
~By Paul A. Volcker ~
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 ~
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
~By Bart Stupak ~
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
~By Olympia Snowe ~
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
~By Benjamin Whichcote ~
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
~By Karl Marx ~
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
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