Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.
My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
I like to measure people by their accomplishments in life and how they consistently act.
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
We had taken the cups for coffee out of the building as a cost-saving measure, but left the coffee. Somebody thought it was symbolic to do this.
If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.
One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
A man's measure is his will.
Women look at the full measure of the man, not just one comment.
I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.
We are a people unafraid to welcome 'your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,' because we measure others by the quality of their hopes for the future, not by the circumstances of their birth.
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she struck, bearing very unflattering official portraits of her, or some doubtful busts, which may be of other women imitating her coiffure.
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?
Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
Sometimes you have to stop something to really measure the passion that you have, and either you feel like moving, or you don't, and then maybe it's time to stop.
