Measured Quotes

808 quotes by 681 authors

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed… — Chester A. Arthur
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity… — Mikhail Bakunin
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. — Douglas Adams
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. — Mary McLeod Bethune
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. — John Betjeman
The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly… — Conrad Black
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. — William Blake
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. — Erma Bombeck
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged… — Jorge Luis Borges
I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice,… — Elayne Boosler
Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and… — Walther Bothe
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of… — Raymond Chandler
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. — William Ellery Channing
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab… — Eric Alterman
One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another… — David O. McKay
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the… — Alice Miller
Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities. — Gary Snyder
Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society.… — Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear. — Buzzy Trent
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force… — PZ Myers

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