Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
Robert Fortune
NaturePowerGreatArtMeasureShe
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington
PowerWarConstitutionMeasureShall
It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
Roddy Doyle
MeMeasureHardBecauseCloseBooks
If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country.
Enda Kenny
PeopleYouMeasureConsequencesWant
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
MeasureActingSkillsFilmVery
I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.
Dylan Moran
LifeWisdomFeelYouMeasureKnow
One way to measure the size of a company, industry, or economy is to determine its output. But a better way is to determine its added value - namely, the difference between the value of its outputs, that is, the goods and services it produces, and the costs of its inputs, such as the raw materials and energy it consumes.
Michael Spence
ValueEnergyBetterMeasureWay
I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.
David Benioff
BeautifulWarWorldStoryMeasure
Might was the measure of right.
Lucan
MeasureRightMight
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Charles Lamb
GoodManMeasureWellChosenHe
For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.
Julia Bacha
SuccessGreatMeasureTemptationWho
The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
Billy Collins
EleganceMeasureTopUpWhoWriter
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
Joseph Butler
MeasureDegreeNaturalMayPassions
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Alfred Adler
AttitudeSpeakDoingMeasureDown
Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.
Jon Landau
MeAccomplishmentArtistMeasurePop
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
Al Stewart
LoveUncertaintyReachMeasureDown
Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.
Douglas Tompkins
NatureWisdomEfficiencyMeasureOur
If we can validate our scientific bets in the clinic, if we can bring valuable new treatments to patients that need them, that will be our ultimate measure of success.
Vivek Ramaswamy
SuccessMeasureNewWillNeedBring
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
Donald Norman
ScienceThinkYouMeasureDecide
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
Ray Dalio
MoneyPeopleSocietyMeasureWhy
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman
FriendshipFriendsMeasureNeed
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
SuccessMeasureAdmitHumanHer
I like to measure people by their accomplishments in life and how they consistently act.
Brandon Webb
LifePeopleMeasureActLikeHow
I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.
Lauren Groff
CommunityFlyLongMeasureSeeing
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