Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ~By Gregory Bateson ~
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. ~By William R. Alger ~
In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute. ~By Margaret Spellings ~
It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst. ~By Stephen Cambone ~
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 ~
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 ~
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. ~By James Lovelock ~
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. ~By Jeremy Bentham ~
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. ~By Alfred Adler ~
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 ~
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. ~By Samuel Ullman ~
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. ~By Carlos Ghosn ~
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. ~By Willa Cather ~
Might was the measure of right. ~By Marcus Annaeus Lucan ~
President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless. ~By Mitt Romney ~
The slum is the measure of civilization. ~By Jacob Riis ~
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run. ~By Al Stewart ~
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. ~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
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 ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. ~By Roy L. Smith ~
Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough. ~By Marvin Harris ~
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 ~
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 ~
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. ~By Sydney Madwed ~
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ~By Audrey Hepburn ~
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 ~
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 ~
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. ~By Ronald Reagan ~
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. ~By Arthur Henderson ~
With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. ~By Francis Aungier ~
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ~By Henry A. Wallace ~
No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints. ~By Charles Simeon ~
In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years. ~By Randy Neugebauer ~
And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord. ~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ~By Horatio Nelson ~
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 ~
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 ~
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. ~By Thomas E. Mann ~
I have always supported measures and principles and not men. ~By Davy Crockett ~
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ~By Thomas Hardy ~
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. ~By Ayaan Hirsi Ali ~
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. ~By Robert Anderson ~
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. ~By George Mason ~
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 ~
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 ~
First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures. ~By George J. Mitchell ~
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. ~By E. O. Wilson ~
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 ~
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. ~By Paul Elmer More ~
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers. ~By Anita Roddick ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests. ~By Gerard Debreu ~
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. ~By Jeremy Bentham ~
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 ~
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. ~By Alan Perlis ~
It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material. ~By Ben Shahn ~
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 ~
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight. ~By Delia Smith ~
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 ~
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. ~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science. ~By John Henry Carver ~
One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief. ~By Gwen Ifill ~
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. ~By Camille Desmoulins ~
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be. ~By Jack LaLanne ~
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. ~By Steven Tyler ~
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. ~By Robert Bourassa ~
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules. ~By Richard Perle ~
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves. ~By James Buchan ~
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ~By J. K. Rowling ~
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. ~By Charles Kuralt ~
It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion. ~By Aly Khan ~
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 ~
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. ~By Jane Rule ~
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight. ~By Arthur Eddington ~
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 ~
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. ~By Lytton Strachey ~
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ~By Zelda Fitzgerald ~
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. ~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part. ~By John Bright ~
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 ~
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. ~By Michael Korda ~
To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it. ~By Elena Kagan ~
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. ~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. ~By Abu Bakr ~
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public. ~By Lance Ito ~
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time. ~By Patrick Stewart ~
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 ~
How does one measure the success of a museum? ~By Paul Getty ~
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. ~By Daniel Webster ~
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 ~
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 ~
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity. ~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. ~By William Ellery Channing ~
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 ~
Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see. ~By Nigella Lawson ~
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