measure

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.

What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but also their body type and lifestyle outside the Olympic arena. Their diets are affected not only by the demands of their sports, but by everything else in their lives, things that are almost impossible to accurately measure and factor in.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.