The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.
I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.
What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.
When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the man.
Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.
Life is not measured by the time we live.
It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.
What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.
A journey is measured in friends, not miles.
One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.
I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here. " Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message. " I did. Two hours ago. " - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine. "- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy. . . or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.
The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or winloss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.