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Measure Quotes

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

Family Food Best Measure Living

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Robert Browning

Mind Measure Height Shade Your

In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.

Justice You Measure Kind Division

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

Mary Todd Lincoln

Life Live Rain Measure Fall Others

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.

Elliot Richardson

Job Doing Trying Measure Done Why

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

Truth Truth Is You Measure Bad Just

I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself.

Work Myself Day Cooking Measure Now

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Slavery Measure Hidden Difficult

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

Great Accomplishment Think Measure

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

Good Best Me Moving Measure Economy

So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China's endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.

Charles C. Mann

City Feet Corruption Meaning Measure

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Jean Baudrillard

Love Courage Measure Feelings Play

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Measure Human She Human Being Decent

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Life Value End Meaning Measure How

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Eyes Money Research Think Measure

I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with. On the other hand someone's whole behaviour allows you to characterise them in a certain way. This person has liberal convictions, that person has conservative ones, this person is a radical socialist, and so on.

Dmitry Medvedev

Myself Someone You Measure Person

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Wisdom Measure Clock Hours Measured

I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.

Sports Money Youth Looking Measure

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Inspirational Measure Who

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

Government Believe Measure Situation

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

Good Opinion Free Measure Know Hard

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Brian Ferneyhough

Revolution Measure Structure Concrete

My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.

Marcus Buckingham

Personality People Me Measure Career

I strongly support the bipartisan immigration measure previously passed by the Senate, and when I served in Congress I was proud to have helped introduce the House version of the bill. I also strongly support the DREAM Act.

Support Proud Immigration Measure

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