Top 100 Measure Quotes
#1. It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.
Elias Canetti
#2. The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
Bill Buford
#3. I used to measure myself against other people, but I always came up short. Now, I try to figure out what I really want, and measure myself against that.
Inara Scott
#4. The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.
Arthur W. Pink
#7. If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.
Mo Ibrahim
#8. The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. I
Ally Condie
#9. The clock changed to 4:47. Passages in time. He had always wondered if it was possible to measure an interval, and here it was, two minutes had elapsed before his very eyes. One hundred and twenty seconds during which nothing had happened.
Ken Puddicombe
#10. At the end of the day, when we measure our healthcare, it will not be by the diseases cured, but by the diseases prevented.
Rebecca Onie
#11. Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us.
Joan Didion
#12. A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
George Eliot
#13. God created everything by number, weight and measure.
Isaac Newton
#14. Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it was a product of our vision of the world; and it did so as part of the same process which seemed to impart 'truth': science.
Joseph Kosuth
#15. I believe one should never invalidate another, even if you don't agree. No one is ever 100% right or 100% wrong. There is always some measure of truth on both sides. - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#16. If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
J.G. Holland
#18. When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
Saint Basil
#19. 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.
John Warner
#20. 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.
Gloria Steinem
#21. Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.
Margaret Way
#22. The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts.
John Lachs
#23. The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.
Randy Falco
#24. Don't measure your wealth by how many things you have. Measure your wealth by how many things you have that you wouldn't take money for.
Myrlie Evers
#25. True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
Leon Jouhaux
#26. 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!
Jack LaLanne
#27. Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.
Shaquille O'Neal
#28. Back in those days I was stoned almost twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The difference today is that there is nothing you or anyone else could say to persuade me to inhale enough even to fill a flea's lung with cannabis. It's actually impossible to measure how fantastic I feel.
Chris Sullivan
#29. Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.
Christopher Hitchens
#30. Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
Les Brown
#31. Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
Edward Thorndike
#32. I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#34. It is important in life not to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once. If you want something in life, reach out and grab it.
Christopher McCandless
#35. The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone.
Fred Small
#36. You measure a player from the head up.
Al McGuire
#37. The things I thought were so important
because of the effort I put into them
have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered.
Thomas Merton
#38. Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.
Robert A. Heinlein
#39. The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer
#40. Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.
Marty Rubin
#41. When it came to the definition of genius, the ultimate measure could never really be the skull - the measure was always the writing, the music, the art itself.
Colin Dickey
#42. Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and in measure.....Therefore, whatever the old doctors may say, to employ oneself at all this is to be a Philosopher and a Mathematician.
Charles Sorel
#43. Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
Edith Wharton
#44. When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means?
Oswald Chambers
#45. Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important
Seth Godin
#46. No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
John Milton
#47. To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#48. Who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Virginia Woolf
#49. The uncertainty principle "protects" quantum mechanics. Heisenberg recognized that if it were possible to measure the momentum and the position simultaneously with a greater accuracy, the quantum mechanics would collapse. So he proposed that it must be impossible.
Richard Feynman
#50. To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
John Lyly
#51. You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself
Amari Soul
#52. Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.
Curtis Joseph
#53. If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
Peter Drucker
#54. I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.
Simon Armitage
#55. To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.
David McCullough
#56. My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
Joe Biden
#58. They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Kahlil Gibran
#59. Your heart was good but you forgot to guard it. You killed yourself slowly because of this. The heart is the true measure of a man or woman. I loved you and I know that you knew I loved you. We all have addictions. Some are just more obvious to the eye. We are all dying, but we are all living.
Kiese Laymon
#60. Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.
Gabe Paul
#61. Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.
Fulton J. Sheen
#62. The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.
Jacob Grimm
#63. In his 1865 lecture on "Value, Price and Profit," Marx illustrated luxury consumption as money "wasted on flunkeys, horses, cats and so forth." It is some measure of progress that the general population can now afford to keep cats.
Anonymous
#64. But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.
Galileo Galilei
#65. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H.G.Wells
#66. The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both
Milton Friedman
#67. There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart.
Randy Pausch
#68. Here there is left a tenuous subterfuge, 875 which Anaxagoras seizes: think of things as mixtures of everything, all concealed but one that shows - the one that's mixed in largest measure and close to the surface and placed right at the top.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#69. I'm supposed to be here taking measurements, but I haven't even brought a measuring tape. And it's not the apartment I need to measure -- it's the size of my balls.
Sarina Bowen
#70. She'd had little patience with darkness, and her heart
held only a measure of shadow. I touched
the warm dust of those colors, her tools,
and left there with light on the tips of my fingers.
Ted Kooser
#71. Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new ... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
Paracelsus
#72. If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.
James D. Maxon
#73. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
Ezra Pound
#74. The measure ov overexposure is not how many times people see you on TV or in the bookstores. It's whether you can maintain the quality of your entertainment. If you can, people will always be glad to see you.
Bill Cosby
#75. I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
#76. Pride and resentment do not create bread that will rise. Bread, like a good life, can only be created by honest measure, patience, warmth, and time.
Lisa Wingate
#78. Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.
Simon Sinek
#79. There should be a measure for happiness or sadness, like the width of your smile, the twinkle in your eyes, the depth of your laughter or the salt of your tears.
Srividya Srinivasan
#80. What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#81. The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us.
Mary Oliver
#82. The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
Gregory Maguire
#83. The measure of a life well lived is how many good dogs you can fit into it.
[or cats]
Marion Lennox
#84. The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.
Terry Goodkind
#85. Rosie loved Tom. Rosie had always loved Tom and, although she was unable to measure "always" in terms of years and months, this made perfect sense to her. Their love was not constrained by the mortal bonds of time; it was eternal, ageless and ancient beyond all recollection and record.
Tanya Bullock
#86. Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen;
Bright skies will soon be o'er me, where the dark clouds have been.
My hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free,
My Savior has my treasure, and He will walk with me.
Anna Laetitia Waring
#87. Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.
Brian Tracy
#88. The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
Stephen Jay Gould
#89. I've often thought that the unit of measure that best suits prose is the human breath
Charles D'Ambrosio
#90. Apple's MirrorPhone played a measure of One Reflection's single "You Don't Know You're Charming" to announce she'd received another hext message.
Shannon Hale
#91. It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.
Mia Farrow
#92. Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
John Dryden
#93. 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.
Jo Bonner
#94. Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.
Gu Cheng
#95. The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
#96. The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.
Jack McDevitt
#97. As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
Sidney Poitier
#98. We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.
Neil Postman
#99. Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that,
where intention is sound, action is sound,
and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt
Al-Nawawi
#100. I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.
Ben Lerner
