Measure Quotes

2084 Measure quotes by 1450 unique authors

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. — William Hazlitt
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not… — Chris Hedges
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to… — Thomas Jefferson
It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it. — Kalle Lasn
If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't… — Dennis Prager
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have… — Theda Skocpol
Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well,… — Noam Chomsky
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our… — John J. Sweeney
The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation. — Robert Redford
In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves,… — Ivar Giaever
Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this warming has occurred… — Greg Benson
The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction. — Freeman Dyson
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for… — Lord Kelvin
It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure… — William Cecil Dampier
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J. G. Holland
The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it… — Michio Kaku
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each… — Herodotus
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is… — Hermann Bondi
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here… — Carlo Rovelli
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing… — Shelby Steele
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's. — A. E. Housman
God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic… — Pope Benedict XVI
Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender. — Therese of Lisieux
According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride,… — Jeff Cooper

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