#measure

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#equal #measures #people #politicians

We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#agree #alongside #because #both #bring

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier. ↗

— Bode Miller

#brought #bunch #easier #how #i

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value. ↗

— Demi Moore

#had #i #life #measured #mother

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#expansion #family #family structure #generation #measure

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#believe #careful #clinton #companion #connection

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#desperate #measures #require

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. ↗

— John Olver

#antarctica #attention #became #carbon #carbon dioxide

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#experts #many #measures #organization #overdue

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#greatest happiness #greatest number #happiness #measure #number