Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon
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.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask. Yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
Come not within the measure of my wrath.
William Shakespeare
There is measure in all things.
Horace Mann
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Horace Mann
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
Bill Clinton
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
Randy K. Milholland
Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.
Sir Philip Sidney
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
Albert Einstein
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
Intense love does not measure; it just gives.
Mother Teresa Of Calcutta
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Arab Proverb
Vaughan is not playing this match as a precautionary measure.
Andrew Walpole
Congress rightly rejected this measure last year and must reject it again.
Caroline Fredrickson
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm
We don't know much about bursts so there is a risk this is misleading. It is a blunt tool to measure a delicate effect.
Robert Kirshner
No quarantine measure can prevent the pandemic. It can only slow it for a few days.
Dmitry Lvov
By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.
Pete Nicholas
Just being out there and playing with the pros is an honor. It's a great way to measure your game and see how you stack up with the pros.
Mark House
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Anna Pavlova
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
William Hazlitt
We are more and better organized against that measure than we ever have been before.
Patty Wentz
An equal measure of his environmental ethic derived from living in such a beautiful region of the state. He was Michigan all the way. He is Michigan all the way.
Dave Dempsey
Under this measure, Americans will be responsible for determining for themselves what tea they like and don't like.
Hank Brown
Skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales.
Tony Campolo
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
David C. Mccullough
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
Cullen Hightower
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy L. Smith
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
Tom Selleck
The measure is truly demolishing. It could liquidate some 550 pharmacies, mainly those located in the countryside.
LubomÃr Chudoba
At least we can measure whether the company is meeting its goals or not.
Les Funtleyder
This allows there to be no ceiling on the test we get a measure of what the students truly know.
Jan Wright
For every two horses in our sample we were able to get a molecular measure of their relationship. It turned out that that was on average 47%.
Patrick Cunningham
A weak yen is the only effective measure. The yen has long been overvalued, considering labor productivity and other economic data.
Nobuyuki Idei
The word would be flummoxed. We don't have any idea how she would measure up, because she doesn't have any available record.
Colleen Parro
What it really boils down to is what radiation dose would you allow [people to be exposed to] in the long term and where do you measure that dose?
Tom Cochran
This is more about a different way of trying to measure progress than trying to favor any group of students or schools.
Hanna Skandera
I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure.
James Maxey
They wore us down. They're strong, but this was a good measure of where we are.
Brad Skene
It's not the ultimate vindication we are waiting for, but it demonstrates the charges don't measure up.
Thomas Fitzpatrick
The ballot measure will cost taxpayers more than it will save them. It's going to really backfire.
Wade Buchanan
This is fundamentally an industrialization of a critical wildlife habitat that should be, by any measure, protected.
Stanley Senner
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
Sheila Jackson Lee
You can measure the distance to go through brain to see whether you're drilling through too much brain. If you don't like it, you can change your approach.
Sean Grady
It's very difficult to measure.
Gerry Smith
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
Carl Schurz
We all know that at some point an agreement must be reached. We also know that any tentative agreement is going to be extreme by any measure.
Steve Macfarlane
Sir (Speaker), the loss in revenue arising from this measure will be K39.5 billion.
Ng'andu Magande
I think Measure C has been a success story. I don't like everything that's happened, but basically, it's been a great tool.
Jeff Roberts
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti
I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
Cybill Shepherd
This is a long-term improvement measure designed to do two things: increase capacity by a steady program of expansion and enhance the guest experience with thrilling new attractions and features.
Bill Ernest
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Leigh Hunt
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
Leslie Stephen
Iraq was at core a war of choice, and extraordinarily expensive by every measure - human life, impact on our military, dollars, diplomatically.
Richard Haass
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Stats are created for sportswriters. Stats are not a measure of you as a ballplayer, and not of us as a team.
Buck Kicinski
Each measure can have a significant effect, but it can't contain spread on its own.
Neil Ferguson
We feel there will be premium of some measure in an IPO, particularly if oil prices are rebounding.
John Parry
They use [how much] money they've spent as a measure of success because there's very little else to measure.
David Brinkley
It's hard to measure. But a lot of viewers, when they gauge their satisfaction with coverage, include the announcing team as they look back to say if they enjoyed a broadcast.
Neal Pilson
Stress can be a risk factor although it is very hard to measure that scientifically.
Christian Nolte
It's still very early days, but the economies appear to be heading in roughly the same direction. A small measure of convergence is already there.
Richard Fox
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
Nadine Gordimer
How often do you see the attorney general go on a sort of a charm offensive? ... I see this as a defensive measure on his part. It is a political campaign.
Laura Murphy
You don't have to have sex in order to survive, but it's a very important measure of the quality of life.
Michael Kaplan
How much of the battle space can the Iraqi forces take over, and who is actually doing the fighting - those are the key measurements. The measure cannot be the elimination of the insurgency, as desirable as that would be. You cannot eliminate all of the bombings.
Anthony H. Cordesman
When lawyers for different government entities disagree, that's the appropriate measure to take. When the opinion is issued, we'll be happy to comply with it.
Deb Kottel
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's the way life is. If you don't measure it, it is easier for it to be forgotten.
Mike Dewine
Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras
It's difficult for the state to say we choose Nags Head to fund for beach nourishment with out some kind of parameters to measure the benefit that they're getting for their dollars. Almost every beach in the state is asking for beach nourishment funds.
Bob Muller
The city didn't feel it was appropriate to broadcast the hearings. They felt it could create a circus atmosphere. We were hoping everybody would get to watch it - that's the best way for people to know what happens in these hearings and make a decision based on that. It's the best thing for the citizens, especially if the council's going to lean toward pushing this toward a ballot measure.
Jim Buessing
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol
Even if you plan to sit down at the television and snack, measure out your portion before you sit down so you know how much you're eating.
Jenny Gardner
I've always believed the best measure of a product's worth is customer acceptance in the marketplace.
Paul Otellini
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
Paul Graham
A good family-law attorney or a good certified divorce financial analyst or certified financial planner is going to help you measure the value of the asset you think you want to keep.
Sheryl Garrett
We know what we are up against but our guys are looking forward to it. It's a great opportunity to measure ourselves up against the best.
Wayne Graham
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead
Software is not static -- it is constantly changing. You can't just measure the executable; you need to measure the vendor.
Herbert Thompson
A man's measure is his will.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
We're not trying to measure our success against the Little League, ... but we have the only league that has grown at a 7 percent clip. Our challenge is to keep on growing, and if that happens, we will have plenty more success and get plenty of attention.
Cal Ripken
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
Lawrence Durrell
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
Benjamin Whichcote
There is a real danger that the competitive disadvantage caused by this measure will frustrate the government's ambition of making the U.K. the best place to trade electronically by 2002.
Chris Humphries
You measure a government by how few people need help.
Patricia Schroeder
Winning the conference and winning the tournament doesn't guarantee me coming back. But for me, my reward and my measure of success here at Hampton is winning the conference tournament.
Bobby Collins
Well we can try to measure democracy, just as you measure temperature with a thermometer, or pressure with a barometer.
Hugo Chavez
We are very happy. But unfortunately people measure you by what you do in the tournament.
Nelson Cundiff
[Even so,] the jury's still out on the metrics, ... I'd be lying if I said I know what to measure to determine success.
Scott Deaver
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.
Marianne Williamson
Action, not words, would be the measure of our success or failure. Will there be lengthy academic or legal debates on what constitutes genocide or crimes against humanity while people die?
Charles Murigande
The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts into his work.
Carl Van Doren
By every measure, our people did a superb job executing in what was really a very difficult environment: simply put, there was just a bunch of freight out there.
Peter Rose
The important factor is we improved some times and distances tonight. That's the thing we measure by ? how much we improve. As long as we improved, that's the biggest thing.
Jim Hofmann
Some people measure me at 6-3 and change, ... So I just round it up to 6-4.
Michael Hawthorne
It depends on what measure of size you're looking at. Is it payroll? Is it employment? Is it industrial output?
David Penn
It's tied to life expectancy. They make it sound as if it's a health measure.
James Loewen
Having a charge enables you to not only detect molecules but also to measure their masses, which you can't do with neutral molecules.
R. Graham Cooks
Please, put some teeth into this measure. We can't afford to wait.
Betty Gearen
Only one measure has ever stopped the growth of foreign oil imports and helped the Big Three auto makers stave off foreign competition: increased fuel efficiency standards for American-made cars.
Philip Clapp
A lot of Americans don't pay attention to their leaders on a day-to-day basis. They measure presidents, governors and mayors on how they handle big events like a hurricane. This event is not over because the bodies are going to be discovered day by day.
Robert Blendon
It never would have happened if I hadn't done that. It's one of the ways they take the measure of a man.
John Halpern
We all go around in circles: Isn't there a better way to measure this?
Brian Henderson
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
The predictors of a good education are virtually impossible to measure.
Lloyd Thacker
At the beginning of the competition, they measured how much power was in our house. At the end of the week they will measure again and hopefully we can be at or above our original amount of power.
Alex James
It's hard to measure what doesn't happen. Nurses prevent very bad things from happening.
Barbara Blakeney
Price caps are not a solution to a dysfunctional market. However, they are a damage control measure until solutions are developed.
Joseph Dunn
It's very meticulous. We use rulers to measure distances between buttons and ribbons.
Melanie Sutrathada
I don't think they are too sad. This would have been a costly measure, with few benefits. The economy at least is better off without it.
David Naude
All economists agree tax policy has an effect on the economy. The hard thing is to figure out how to measure these effects in the real world.
Leonard Burman
This meeting will measure how far we have come and to share practices about what works.
Mark Thomas
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
We have placed the three into an isolation ward as a precautionary measure.
Thomas Tsang
This is a confidence-boosting measure and comes as a pleasant surprise. We had expected the issue to be covered in the recent federal budget.
Bidisha Ganguly
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth
Yes, absolutely. That's the way the officer will measure it starting July 1.
Lee Schlesinger
You cannot manage what you cannot measure.
Phil Murphy
It's not as easy as going into your backyard and sticking a ruler in the snow to measure the snowfall.
Thorsten Markus
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran.
Alan Perlis
We're going to find out where we measure up. We feel like we've worked hard this year. We think if we get a chance to be in the game, we'll make things happen. That's what we are looking to do. We know they're going to bring their A-game and we're going to bring our A-game, and we'll see who the better dog is.
Brian Rush
Surely we must all take our fair measure of responsibility.
Wayne Clarkson
This a great measure for league. We lost two close games to league opponents and when we see them again we will be ready.
Chris Olofson
Clearly, Russia doesn't measure up.
Hugh Barnes
If you want to measure muscle health, we're the best mousetrap out there.
Chuck Leonard
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
Jane Goodall
The best way to measure gravity it to drop an object in space and watch its trajectory.
Michael Watkins
In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love. Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure.
Brock Peters
As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation.
Manish Agarwal
A good manager strives to do the right thing. A good leader strives to do what is right. We are in a business where you can't measure productivity by time.
Dean Lynden
The Hotel Sheraton Maria Isabel expresses its great surprise in response to this action. At this moment our lawyers are evaluating the legal, administrative and business implications of this measure.
Laura Canepa
By any measure we have lived up to our original charter and bettered it.
Subramania Sritharan
Asia is booming right now. Investors believe the outlook for Asian companies is good. Foreign investors will gain higher yields plus some measure of diversification.
Marshall Gittler
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.
John Whiting
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
Lord Kelvin
It's a tax-cutting measure and we should have made that clearer.
Vince Cable
We had been preparing to open up with them so we could measure where we were at.
Greg Zenerovitz
He assumed there were no further limits in place because the governor went to court and invalidated the contribution limits on candidate controlled ballot measure committees.
Lance Olson
It seems like it would be simple to figure out how weight is related to health. But you can't just measure height and weight and count the bodies.
Meir Stampfer
France are invariably a great yardstick by which to measure a group in any given year.
Cled Edwards
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham
The flaring is a safety measure. It's actually a requirement.
Aaron Woods
Basically the town shined us on until they wanted our support of Measure N.
Rob Turner
Whenever you get that dramatic of an increase, it bears watching. It's always hard to measure the amount of fraud in the market. A lot of investors don't complain.
Nancy Smith
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.
Pliny the Elder
The measure of a community is not whether these things happen, it's how they respond.
David Waren
You can measure the energy as a function of radius.
Carl Grillmair
If anything, the ad may cause some of our members to rethink their support for the measure.
Joe Donnelly
Now we can measure it very specifically with certain MRI techniques.
Dr. George Bartzokis
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.
George Melton
That's just one of the things we measure our growth by in the electric field.
Rex Garrett
One measure is how many of our members will utilize the data available and, ultimately, if there will be a change in behavior at the consumer level.
Scott Storrer
This measure is about basic fairness for domestic partners. Domestic partners and their families deserve the conveniences and financial benefits that can come with filing a joint return.
Seth Kilbourn
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
Albert Szent Gyorgyi
This was because the non-US business of the company grew by a healthy 13 percent, compensating in significant measure for the sluggish US market.
Brian Tempest
But it does not mean we should risk lives of people. We cannot measure everything in terms of profit and loss.
Amar Sinha
You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.
Robert C. Savage
We have a year to convince John McCain and the rest of Arizonans about how harmful this measure really is.
Sgt. Steve Maynard
It would be completely different if they came from Stuttgart, but some of these players are here from Kaunas and there's a measure of influence we can have there.
Phil Anderton
It's unbelievable that, in this country, the U.S., they would even consider a measure like this.
Freddy Peralta
The slum is the measure of civilization.
Jacob Riis
You need to know how to measure ROI, the number of visitors and the number of impressions. No matter how great the applications or how great the kiosk looks, it doesn't mean anything if no one is using it.
Lawrence Dvorchik
We set out to accomplish two objectives five years ago: One, secure a measure of economic justice for California consumers and two, prevent another California energy crisis. We accomplished both objectives.
Pierce O'donnell
It was a very constructive exercise. The final product is a better measure.
David Crane
We expect our movie stars to do extraordinary things, because they're iconic. But to capture the measure of achievement of those people on that airplane, it was essential to believe they were as ordinary as you or I.
Paul Greengrass
A lot of those teams normally are district teams for us, so we can kind of see how we measure up.
Joe Wojtkiewicz
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
We have done what we can to alert people to the fact that one measure is on the back of the ballot. But I'm sure there will be some folks who won't get the message or who will forget and will miss that item.
Kathryn Reith
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
I'm not a grudge-bearer. If the people vote for Measure C, I can be Mike's ally again.
Marilyn Goode
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Vince Lombardi
Measure 37 is so divisive, even in the farming community. It has become quite clear that these people need all the help they can get to make a financial go of it.
John Belton
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
Thurgood Marshall
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