Measure Quotes
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Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
Bill Clinton
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The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.
Bosie
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Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.
Cornelia Parker
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It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.
Hannah Arendt
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Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.
Brad Alan Lewis
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.
Antonio Porchia
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I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
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When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
Alfie Kohn
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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
Maya Angelou
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
Baruch Spinoza
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If a snail’s shell gets injured, a repair can be made quickly. New shell material is secreted by the mantle, and where there was once a crack, a scar appears, looking much like a skin scar. Even a missing shell section can be replaced. Oliver Goldsmith described this in 1774: Sometimes these animals are crushed seemingly to pieces, and, to all appearance, utterly destroyed; yet still they set themselves to work, and, in a few days, mend all their numerous breaches . . . to the re-establishment of the ruined habitation. But all the junctures are very easily seen, for they have a fresher colour than the rest; and the whole shell, in some measure, resembles an old coat patched with new pieces.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
