You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. ~By Earl Nightingale ~
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ~By Blaise Pascal ~
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
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 ~
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. ~By Christie Hefner ~
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 ~
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 ~
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. ~By Daniel Webster ~
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? ~By Abraham Pais ~
A man's measure is his will. ~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. ~By Orison Swett Marden ~
To measure the man, measure his heart. ~By Malcolm Forbes ~
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. ~By Marianne Williamson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. ~By Jon Postel ~
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. ~By Margaret Mead ~
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? ~By Walt Whitman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back. ~By Jerry Moran ~
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter. ~By Nadine Gordimer ~
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 ~
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 ~
Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ~By Tony Robbins ~
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 ~
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. ~By Orlando Gibbons ~
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire. ~By Jack Schwartz ~
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. ~By Felix Adler ~
Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen. ~By Michael Behe ~
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~By Bruce Feirstein ~
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. ~By Chaim Potok ~
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 ~
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. ~By Benjamin Harrison ~
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 ~
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? ~By Virginia Woolf ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. ~By Cullen Hightower ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. ~By William R. Alger ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. ~By Dora Russell ~
One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief. ~By Gwen Ifill ~
Might was the measure of right. ~By Marcus Annaeus Lucan ~
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 ~
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. ~By E. O. Wilson ~
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals. ~By Jimmy Swaggart ~
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet. ~By Susan George ~
This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need. ~By Jo Bonner ~
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 ~
And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know. ~By Lance Ito ~
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. ~By Bryant H. McGill ~
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 ~
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. ~By Charles Lamb ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. ~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. ~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures. ~By George J. Mitchell ~
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 ~
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. ~By Sam Houston ~
It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow. ~By James Larkin ~
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. ~By Alan Perlis ~
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 ~
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 ~
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. ~By Phyllis McGinley ~
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. ~By Steven Tyler ~
What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure. ~By Satyajit Ray ~
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight. ~By Delia Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program. ~By Jane Mayer ~
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
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 ~
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. ~By Germaine Greer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. ~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power. ~By J. G. Holland ~
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 ~
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. ~By Roy L. Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material. ~By Ben Shahn ~
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