Measure Quotes - page 2

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. (Carl Jung)
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. View quote
H. G. Wells
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. View quote
H. G. Wells
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. View quote
Ann Landers
Greatness The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. View quote
Andy Warhol
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. View quote
Alan Perlis
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. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow. View quote
Vitruvius
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. View quote
Andre Norton
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. (William James)
It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. View quote
Graham Greene
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. View quote
John Dewey
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. View quote
Alberto Giacometti
Man is the measure of all things. View quote
Protagoras
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. View quote
Margaret Mead
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
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. View quote
Jane Goodall
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. (George Bernard Shaw)
The only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their old measurements. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Michael Korda
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life. View quote
Karen Armstrong
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