Measure Quotes
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Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.
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You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them.
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Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers. In a world where mortal man has become the dominant force, most creatures of enchantment have fled to refuges like this one.
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The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.
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For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.
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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.
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My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.
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Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
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Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.
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Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
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Regardless of where you are, I invite you, in the following pages, to discredit the view that the second half of your life will never measure up to the first. Instead of giving up and settling for life on its own terms, you are ready for new horizons, new challenges. You are ready to move from success to significance.
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The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
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In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.
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It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.
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Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.
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A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
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She does not know how to measure her life. When Sam was alive, she measured it through his love. She had always measured herself through the look in his eyes. She is afraid of admitting that to herself.
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There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.
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If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.
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A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
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The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.
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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
