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Feeble and timid minds ... consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence. — Edward Gibbon

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. — Ezra Pound

We stood at the turning point ... Half-measures availed us nothing. — Stephen King

I am a stranger to half measures. — Marita Golden

Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security. — Malcolm Turnbull

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself. — Richard Sherman

The punitive measures against murder underscore the gravity of the crime precisely because of the value of the victim. — R.C. Sproul

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures. — Angela Merkel

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. — Alexander Hamilton

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic,. — Julie Gerberding

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"They're all con artists. — Emma Raveling

U201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. — Glenn Gould

By all measures men are the more violent gender. — Steven Pinker

Hot chocolate should be sinful, and I don't believe in sinning in half measures. — Rachel Hawthorne

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform. — Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes God demands radical measures when He wants to bring about radical results. — Beth Moore

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century, — Bruno Le Maire

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable. — Hippocrates

We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments. — Joshua Gaylord

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] — Horace

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy. — Charles Alexandre De Calonne

I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner. — Richard Wagner

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.' — Benjamin Disraeli

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. — Arne Duncan

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty. — Josephus

Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures. — Stefan Fatsis

They were large, even for the mus decumanus, which sometimes measures fifteen inches in length, — H.P. Lovecraft

I've never had this problem, but that damn Russian brought his big ole penis into bed with me and now no other man even measures up! — Toni Aleo

A place that measures change in terms of centuries is the saddest place to live in as far us you are a live. — Auliq Ice

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love. — Francis Chan

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we shall take the good we find,asking no questions,we shall have heaping measures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. — George Canning

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away. — Saint Augustine

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I have changed my Ministers but I have not changed my measures.Iamstill formoderation, and Iwill governby it. — Anne, Queen Of Great Britain

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures. — Antonis Samaras

Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures. — Veronica Roth

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity. — Frank B. Kellogg

There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally. — Abraham Foxman

He that measures not himselfe, is measured. — George Herbert

I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything. — Katy Butler

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures. — Fidel Castro

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement. — Edmund Burke

Maybe life is measured by the first time you question your place in the world and by the final answer you come up with. — Chris Dietzel

Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity. — Paul-Ludwig Landsberg

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. — Dora Russell

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. — Daniel Webster

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it. — Quentin Bryce

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile — Robert Kennedy

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace. — James F. Byrnes

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things. — Bob Proctor

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. — Thomas Carlyle

just let Mitch be Mitch — Vince Flynn

regression inevitably occurs when the correlation between two measures is less than perfect, — Daniel Kahneman

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals. — Jimmy Swaggart

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking. — Kenny Smith

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. — George Herbert

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya) — Ronald Reagan

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Am I the only one who measures time using songs? Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that's not to long! — Kendrick Lamar

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain ... You can't get even measures in business like this. — Larry McMurtry

It is absolutely unacceptable to talk to Russia - or anyone for that matter - in the language of ultimatums and coercive measures. — Sergei Lavrov

And he set to rhyme his ale-measures,
And he sang aloud his laws,
Because of the joy of giants,
The joy without a cause. — G.K. Chesterton

When life wants to get our attention it doesn't bother with half measures. — Joe Schreiber

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always supported measures and principles and not men. — Davy Crockett

On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no. — George W. Bush

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology. — Martin Seligman

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence. — Herbert Hoover

Additional Prevention Measures — Kenneth Singleton

Our ability to stay with God in our closet measures our ability to stay with God out of the closet. — E. M. Bounds

Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome. — Andy Sawford

He measures our lives by how we love. — Francis Chan

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. — Georg Buchner

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. — Paul Tillich

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided. — Ludwig Von Mises

I know of no industrial society where women are the economic equals of men. Of everything that economics measures, women get less. — Ivan Illich

The government [Hitler promised] will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures. Neither — William L. Shirer

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems. — Lucas Papademos

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices. — Alexander Hamilton

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. — Benjamin Whichcote

Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored. — Albert Bandura

No half measures. Some things can't be cut in half. You can't half-love someone. You can't half-betray, or half-lie. — Mark Lawrence

What's a year in comparison with eternity? what's a day? an hour? a second? Such measures have meaning only for a heart that's still beating. — Amin Maalouf

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places. — Anthony Trollope

We are only intelligent by our own measures — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures. — George J. Mitchell

Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures. — Patrick Ness

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has. — Thomas Brooks

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. — Alfred Doblin

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective — Bertrand Russell

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour. — Lucy Powell