The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
~By William R. Alger ~
It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.
~By Jose Eduardo Dos Santos ~
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
~By Maurice Strong ~
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 ~
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 ~
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
~By Marie de France ~
Effective security measures do not come cheap.
~By Arlen Specter ~
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 ~
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
~By Roy L. Smith ~
How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
~By Edward T. Hall ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
~By Amar Bose ~
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
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 ~
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
~By Christopher Love ~
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
~By Marcel Proust ~
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
~By Davy Crockett ~
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 ~
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
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 ~
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 ~
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
~By Gabriel Marcel ~
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 ~
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
~By Ayaan Hirsi Ali ~
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
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 ~
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
~By Herbert Read ~
I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
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 ~
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
~By Michael Ende ~
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
~By Michael Korda ~
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 ~
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
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 ~
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 ~
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
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 ~
Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
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 success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.
~By Kelly Miller ~
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
~By Sheila Jackson Lee ~
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
~By Lord Kelvin ~
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
~By Virginia Woolf ~
We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
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 ~
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
~By Jessamyn West ~
There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.
~By Silvan Shalom ~
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
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 ~
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 ~
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
~By Michael Korda ~
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 ~
I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
~By Dora Russell ~
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
~By James K. Polk ~
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 true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
~By Tacitus ~
Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.
~By Jerry Brown ~
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
~By James Allen ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
~By Dennis Prager ~
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
~By Chaim Potok ~
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
~By Zelda Fitzgerald ~
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
~By Victor Francis Hess ~
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
~By Keith Henson ~
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
~By Carlos Ghosn ~
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 ~
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 ~
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.
~By John Hull ~
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 ~
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 worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
~By James Bryce ~
What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
~By Ninon de Lenclos ~
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 ~
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 ~
At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.
~By Kit Bond ~
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 ~
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