Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but. . . a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again. Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. Somewhere, just as the platinum iridium meter guarantees the tape measure, a strict measure must exist for the art of this time and place.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.
Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted. . . . For in all the world this state of heart is best.
You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.
Waight and measure take away strife.
To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.
All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.