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If Christianity is going to mean anything at all for us now, then the humanity of God cannot be a half measure.
— Christian Wiman
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
— Arthur Helps
Nay, Socrates," said Glaucon, "the measure of listening to such discussions is the whole of life for reasonable men". The Republic, 450c.
— Plato
I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.
— Brian Spellman
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
— Walter Savage Landor
She arched and farted like Mona Lisa if you really looked at her and for good fruitarian measure.
— Joseph McElroy
He'd shut the door on the subject of loss, thrown all the bolts, and shoved a heavy table up against it for good measure.
— Cecilia Grant
And what is love? My measure of it is that I should have died to spare her. Her measure is for us to be together longer. I
— Harold Brodkey
The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.
— Robert Redford
Mr Shabangu stood for a system, fixed in place, in which you knew how to measure who and what was important.
— Imraan Coovadia
For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.
— Geraldine Brooks
Are the axioms of logic adequate to reality or are they a means and measure for us to create reality, the concept "reality", for ourselves?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
— Ban Ki-moon
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.
— Florence Nightingale
Avoid irreverent, empty speech, for this will produce an even greater measure of godlessness. 2 Timothy 2:16
— Beth Moore
How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
— Seneca The Younger
To sue to live, I find I seek to die;
And, seeking death, find life. — William Shakespeare
And, seeking death, find life. — William Shakespeare
Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness ... For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.
— Sherman Glenn Finesilver
Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future
— Phil Harding
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
— Jeremy Bentham
Yeah, sure," I say, and then, for good measure: "Whatever.
— Courtney Summers
For Wiener, entropy was a measure of disorder; for Shannon, of uncertainty. Fundamentally, as they were realizing, these were the same.
— James Gleick
When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.
— Mark Ruffalo
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
— Tacitus
Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance
between himself and the person who'd come for help. — Jodi Picoult
between himself and the person who'd come for help. — Jodi Picoult
Life will be lengthened while growing, for
Thought is the measure of life. — Charles Godfrey Leland
Thought is the measure of life. — Charles Godfrey Leland
The reason for loving God is God Himself. As to how He is to be loved, there is only one measure: It is immeasurable!
— Bernard Of Clairvaux
To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
— Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
For whatever we do in our lives, discipline and control over our own actions ultimately measure the level of our success.
— R.A. Salvatore
Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart.
— Solange Nicole
If you can't measure it, you can't fix it.
— DJ Patil
I was in and out of the hospital almost daily from then on.
They X-rayed, poked, and prodded me, and then they did it again for good measure. — Bear Grylls
They X-rayed, poked, and prodded me, and then they did it again for good measure. — Bear Grylls
One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.
— H.L. Mencken
He was such a bastard. Maybe he should have Remy shoot him again, just for good measure.
— Abigail Roux
It's too big, too powerful. There is no start and no end, nothing with which I can measure the length and breadth of what I feel for you.
— J. Kenner
The things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.
— Edith Wharton
Sometimes what we think we need isn't what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts.
— Philip Gulley
For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.
— John Kinsella
There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
— Julian Baggini
Christ's nail-pierced hands are beautiful beyond measure, for they tell us of His love and His willingness to save us regardless of the cost.
— Billy Graham
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
— Leo Tolstoy
And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up:
For now the seventh summer carries you,
A wanderer, across the lands and waters. — Virgil
For now the seventh summer carries you,
A wanderer, across the lands and waters. — Virgil
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
— Lupe Fiasco
He did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer.
— David M. O'Connell
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
— Alexander Alekhine
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we abandon all to Him, He takes a tender care of us, and His Providence for us is great or small according to the measure of our abandonment.
— Francis De Sales
She is more beautiful than I have words for. And last night, I was blessed beyond measure to serve her.
— J.R. Ward
Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable ... for us, forever just won't do.
— Steve Maraboli
For without a measure
— Renee Ahdieh
If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
— Bing Gordon
G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.
— Erik Brynjolfsson
People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.
— Blake Griffin
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
— William Shakespeare
Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.
— William Shakespeare
Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.
— Curtis Joseph
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
— Benjamin Franklin
Fairness of face is a gift or curse from God. You cannot take credit for it. Your nature, intelligence, and behavior are the true measure of beauty.
— Katy Madison
The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him ...
— Oswald Chambers
For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.
— Chris Jirika
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
— William Least Heat-Moon
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.
— George R R Martin
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
— Graham Greene
There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.
— Guy Deutscher
Even here - running for our lives, sleeping exposed, facing death - even here, in her arms, I was able to find some measure of peace.
— Ransom Riggs
When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.
— William Shakespeare
I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
— Jed S. Rakoff
You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
I thought of rhyme alone,
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ... — William Butler Yeats
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ... — William Butler Yeats
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
— George Eliot
We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.
— Seth Adam Smith
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
— Desmond Tutu
For Monet, on this occasion, water lilies were the measure of water lilies; and so he painted them.
— Aldous Huxley
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
— Yann Martel
One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the "part" with ignorance of the "whole.
— Pearl Zhu
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.
— Andrew Card
God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons we are to be.
— Billy Graham
The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.
— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
— April Gornik
The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest.
— Jetta Carleton
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.
— William Shakespeare
All surfeit is the father of much fast.
— William Shakespeare
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.
— Malala Yousafzai
Anthony glared at his brother, then for good measure at Miss Sheffield, who was looking at him as if he'd just despoiled ten virgins in her presence.
— Julia Quinn