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Measure Quotes

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Imagination World Feel Measure Line

In my own private-sector work, I have become intrigued with RIWI, a Canadian based company that surveys random respondents on the Web to measure attitudes in otherwise hard-to-reach places.

Work Random Measure My Own Become

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Galileo Galilei

Measure Make Measurable

I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

Mother Art Baby You Measure Know

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Think Guilt You Measure Without

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

You Measure Selling Same Purchasing

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

Grover Norquist

Success Caring Accomplishment Measure

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.

Unity Understanding Measure Islam

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Faith Science Achievement Measure

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.

Men Action Measure White Mad Said

I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you.

Time Mirror Law Looking You Measure

'Toughness' and 'credibility' are leitmotifs that run through both Trumpian and Kissingerian deal-making. Both men insist that war and diplomacy are inseparable and that, to be effective, diplomats need to be able to wield threats and offer incentives in equal, unrestricted measure.

Men War Measure Run Toughness Need

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Robert Dale Owen

Courage Trust Believe Measure Know

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Measure Theory Economic Main Spaces

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Poetry Small Measure Nothing Become

British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.

Frederick Banting

Measure Back Position May British

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

People Society Believe Measure Sound

The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.

Good Book Measure Early Used Memoir

Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that progress toward the ultimate goal is the only measure of success and that setbacks are always disasters.

Success Progress Measure Goal Always

The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley.

David Ebershoff

Shoes Best Me Story Details Measure

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

Poverty Measure Cannot Tackle Our

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

Charles Kennedy

Music Hate Day Silence Me Measure

How do you measure your value?

Value You Measure Your How

If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.

Cesare Beccaria

Humanity Measure Tyranny Liberty

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