The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Ninon de L'Enclos
StrengthJoyMindBrainyMeasure
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
John Lyly
LifeHonestyMeasureTrueLength
You measure a government by how few people need help.
Patricia Schroeder
GovernmentPeopleHelpYouMeasure
You can measure success by the number of friends who have remained loyal to you, and you to them.
Richard E. Grant
SuccessFriendsYouMeasureLoyal
Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.
Robert McKee
ChangeTimeWishYouMeasurePerson
If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
BestMeasureNewLongevityCompany
A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment.
Myron Scholes
MomentProblemMeasureKnowRisk
Because record companies do not routinely release sales figures the way film studios do, the weekly charts in trade publications like 'Billboard' provide the best independent measure of record appeal.
Robert Hilburn
BestMeasureIndependentWaySales
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
Lance Ito
TruthYouMeasureHideOutTake
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Lytton Strachey
ValueMindLiteratureMeasureDrama
My winter uniform is jeans, boots, and an oversize blazer for good measure. It's my formula for getting dressed in under 10 minutes.
Jeanne Damas
WinterGoodBootsMeasureUniform
My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
Hans Rosling
WomenWorldDataYouMeasureSee
Women look at the full measure of the man, not just one comment.
Kellyanne Conway
WomenManMeasureLookCommentJust
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.
Michael Chertoff
MoneyHotelMeasureFindThreeRent
One way to quantify the immigrant contribution to the overall economy is to measure their share of the U.S. economic output. One such examination for the years 2009-2011 found that immigrants contributed 14.7 percent of the total economic output.
Fabrizio Moreira
MeasureImmigrantsWayContribution
And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.
Jane Mayer
StressDoingMeasureGoSoldierSee
The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.
John Sununu
HomeworkMeasureSpecialCompliance
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman
FreedomDemocracyYouMeasureGives
History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
Gustav Stresemann
HistoryTimeManMeasureEvolution
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.
Stanley Smith Stevens
MeasureStatisticsConstraintsUsed
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B. R. Ambedkar
WomenCommunityProgressMeasure
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
LifeExperienceCommon SenseMeasure
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler
LifeSadMeasureSometimesSorrow
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer
FreedomSacrificeMeasureFragile
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