The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“Calling to Measure It’s an obsession now, this matching And measuring, comparing, for instance, The coral-violet of the inner lip Of a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and… — Paul J. Meyer Copy Share Image
Measuring Life By What Others Do To You May Disappoint You. But Measuring Life By What You Do For Others Will Add… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best. — George Jones Copy Share Image
“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world,… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't… — Seth Copy Share Image
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in… — Patrik Sinkewitz Copy Share Image
I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
It's remarkable to see the advancements since the early days of [Harry] Potter with putting LEDs on everything, pointing sticks and measuring.… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.” “Maybe you should say that to Michael.” “Not funny,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief?… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use… — Roy Crowson Copy Share Image
If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New… — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things,… — Art Bell Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their own varying means of measuring thing. Sometimes people can agree on something, but other times they can't.” — ichtys Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image