Measure Quotes

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Just as full sunlight completely dispels all darkness but even a few rays provide a measure of light, so, if we complete the practice of… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts. — Paul Washer
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its… — John Ruskin
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic… — Lytton Strachey
That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't… — John Bradshaw
There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass… — Donald Rumsfeld
I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction… — Ari Fleischer
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much… — Brian Ferneyhough
The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental… — Earl Warren
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise… — George Bernard Shaw
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of… — Allen Tate
That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables. — Tony Snow
In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment… — Margaret Spellings
The idol is the measure of the worshipper. — James Russell Lowell
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. — Lennart Meri
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I… — William Petty
Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured. — Galileo Galilei
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. — Louis Agassiz
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of… — Ralph Adams Cram
Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions... Sometimes people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties during a crisis, hoping… — Ron Paul
Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts. — Stella McCartney
I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy… — Paul Halmos
Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those… — Vincent de Paul
Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey.… — Thomas Malory
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves… — Jacob Grimm

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