Man is the measure of all things.
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need.
In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.
I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.
You measure a government by how few people need help.
How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.
