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.
Pliny the Elder
LiveDarknessReachYouMeasure
On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.
Daniel Hannan
CreditMeasureCountryThreeDebt
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Peter Marshall
LifeMeasureDonationDuration
It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
Ben Shahn
InfluenceMeasureHardPrettyVisual
There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.
Penn Jillette
GodMeasureGoDeadNeverHalfway
If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.
Yemi Osinbajo
MoneyManChurchYouMeasureSalary
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
Tullian Tchividjian
GodPersonalitySufferingMeasureUs
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
HealthSocietySickMeasureWell
In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
Walter Cronkite
FamousJournalismMeasureFameKind
Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.
Timothy Noah
FriendLeaderCommitmentMeasureSay
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
John B. Larson
FutureFightDetailsDevilMeasure
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.
Saint Basil
Moving OnLossYouMeasureFind
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point. It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.
Richard N. Haass
MeasureTragedyNewPointHistorical
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
CourageTrustLieMeasureTrials
It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.
Rachel Riley
TimeYouMeasureComplimentsMore
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
Richard Attenborough
PeopleBelieveMeasureNeedHeroes
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon
GodPainMeasureOurConceptWhich
When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'
Natalie Cole
FatherMyselfPeopleMeasureAsking
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
LoveRelationshipMeasureIntense
My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission.
Robert Kiyosaki
SuccessMissionMeasureSuccess Is
Recent history shows that leaders in both parties are fanatics on the topic of immigration, and they cannot be trusted to effectively enforce any significant border measure.
Laura Ingraham
HistoryBorderImmigrationMeasure
The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.
Marquis de Lafayette
ConfidencePowerThinkWishMeasure
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
GoodMindMeasurePersonTrueHim
The digital team who were running Twitter, they weren't just going to put out a tweet for fun. They're going to try and figure out how do we measure the impact. Then they'd tweet it, and if it worked, great.
Harper Reed
GreatFunTeamImpactMeasureTry
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