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 ~
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
~By Abdelaziz Bouteflika ~
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
~By Gerard Debreu ~
All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.
~By John Engler ~
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
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 ~
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
~By Leo Bogart ~
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
~By Zelda Fitzgerald ~
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 ~
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 ~
Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
~By Li Peng ~
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
~By Rick Renzi ~
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
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 ~
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
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 ~
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 ~
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
~By Tony Robbins ~
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
~By Herbert Read ~
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
~By Ramsey Clark ~
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
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 ~
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
~By Albert Claude ~
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
~By Mother Teresa ~
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
~By Charles Lamb ~
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
~By Mike Schmidt ~
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 ~
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
~By Felix Klein ~
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
~By Chester A. Arthur ~
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 ~
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
~By Samuel Chase ~
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
~By Donald Norman ~
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
~By Don DeLillo ~
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 ~
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
~By Karl Marx ~
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 realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
~By Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ~
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.
~By Silvan Shalom ~
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 ~
One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
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 ~
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
~By Victor Francis Hess ~
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 ~
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~By William Henry Harrison ~
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
~By Marcel Proust ~
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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 ~
Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.
~By John L. Phillips ~
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
~By Ann Landers ~
In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
~By Horst Koehler ~
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
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 ~
As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
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 ~
Man is the measure of all things.
~By Protagoras ~
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 ~
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
~By James Woods ~
We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
~By Georges Duhamel ~
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
~By Daniel Patrick Moynihan ~
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
~By John B. Larson ~
Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.
~By James Cash Penney ~
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 ~
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
~By Andy Warhol ~
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 readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
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 ~
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
~By Mary Mcleod Bethune ~
In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.
~By John Henry Carver ~
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
~By Donald Trump ~
I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
~By Cybill Shepherd ~
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 ~
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
~By John Olver ~
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
~By Arlen Specter ~
The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
~By Bishop Robert South ~
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
~By Ben Jonson ~
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
~By Chaim Potok ~
Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.
~By Robert Charles Winthrop ~
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
~By Albert Bandura ~
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
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 ~
How does one measure the success of a museum?
~By Paul Getty ~
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 ~
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
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 ~
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