Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.
Mothers. . . would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.
I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate. . . . It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
Thought is the measure of life.
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.
Measure a person by what they do with power.
The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances