Measure Quotes
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But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.
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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
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As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
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Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
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I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
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Unlike the bounded-set approach where we're constantly trying to measure ourselves up to see whether we're in or out, the centered-set paradigm invites us to ask far more simple and profound questions: "Am I moving toward Jesus? Am I moving toward love?
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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
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Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.
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The Lamb is, indeed, the emblem of love; but what so terrible as the wrath of the Lamb? The depth of the mercy despised is the measure of the punishment of him that despiseth. No more fearful words than those of the Saviour. The threat- enings of the law were temporal, those of the gospel are eternal. It is Christ who reveals the never-dying worm, the unquenchable fire, and He who contrasts with the eternal joys of the redeemed the everlasting woes of the lost. His loving arms would enfold the whole human race, but not while impenitent or unbelieving; the benefits of His redemption are conditional.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.
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God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
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Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more c to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.
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Things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up.
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Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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.
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You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.
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You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all.
