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Measure Quotes

By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.

Government Financial Measure Country

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good Women Influence Thought Measure

We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.

Life Quality Economics Measure GDP

Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.

John L. Phillips

Day Feel Exercise You Measure Kind

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.

Coffee Building Thought Measure Out

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.

Marie de France

Love Truth Loyalty Loved Measure

The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.

Robert Jeffress

Leader Measure Stop True Him Takes

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Heart Man Measure His

The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed.

Work City Building Planning Measure

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.

Anna Howard Shaw

Equality Think Advice Measure Fox

Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn't.

Progress Creative Think Measure Way

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Time Bond Measure Lost Point Our

I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

I Am Common Sense Measure House Tax

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Money You Measure Wealth Lost Left

Tennis was more than a passing interest, but I found my ability didn't measure up to these West Coast kids who had played 12 months a year and taken it much more seriously than I.

Year Measure Seriously More Tennis

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Measure Tax Couples Get Excellent

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Measure Write Everyone Paper Soon

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

Light Forward Short Long Measure

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

Stanley Smith Stevens

Measure Estimation Direct Sensation

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Lie Measure Tape

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.

Life Measure Own Must Conduct Terms

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

Sonia Sotomayor

School I Am Law Looking Measure

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

Society Measure Possible Redemption

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Life Language Die Meaning Measure

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