Measured Quotes

808 Measured quotes by 650 unique authors

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. — Alexis de Tocqueville
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. — Donald Trump
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles… — Booker T. Washington
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? — Jessamyn West
You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our… — Tiger Woods
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us. — Bob Woodward
As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007 — George W. Bush
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is… — Albert Einstein
For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. — Haruki Murakami
The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you… — Bob Dylan
For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after. — Don DeLillo
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy. — Derrick Jensen
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out… — Barbara Kingsolver
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow… — Shel Silverstein
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not… — Susan B. Anthony
The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured. — Thomas S. Monson
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want. — Larry Wall
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. — Nicholas Sparks
The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves. — Tom Robbins
She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there… — Marilynne Robinson
A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven. — Chaim Potok
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph] — Johannes Kepler
Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats.… — Kevin Brockmeier

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