Measures Quotes

486 quotes by 395 authors

I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must… — Boethius
If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century, — Bruno Le Maire
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in… — Aleister Crowley
I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put… — Thomas Jefferson
We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done… — Karl Marx
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out. — Heraclitus
The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural… — Ban Ki-moon
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement. — Edmund Burke
We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees, their degrees, or… — Marvin J. Ashton
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many… — Roger Swain
Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a… — William Sloane Coffin
O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic… — Fanny Kemble
I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of… — Unknown Author
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept… — George Gerbner
It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. — George Canning

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