Measures Quotes
486 quotes by 395 authors
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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
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If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century,
— Bruno Le Maire
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
— Heraclitus
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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
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Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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