Measure Quotes
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
Kate O'Mara -
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust -
We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.
Rachel Shenton -
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
Nadine Gordimer -
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
L. Neil Smith -
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark -
Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.
Tupac Shakur
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And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.
Rose Tremain -
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.
Anna Komnene -
You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
Jack Welch -
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
Abu Bakr -
Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.
Galileo Galilei -
We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.
Alfie Kohn
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun -
Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.
Cherrie Moraga -
Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
Ban Ki-moon -
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
Felix Adler -
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
Lance Ito
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
Patricia Schroeder -
By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
Ted Cruz -
We kept Mark out as a precautionary measure. He looked good this morning. We don't anticipate any problems.
Joe Gibbs -
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
Oswald Chambers