#measure

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#adjust #bathroom #best #his #honesty

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. ↗

— Robert Collier

#any #belief #chances #measured #success

I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed. ↗

— Brian Cox

#biggest #both #careers #changed #desperate

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#am #brutal #crimes #death #deciding

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? ↗

— Don DeLillo

#end #how #life #meaning #meaning of

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#children #dictates #even #landscape #measure

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters. ↗

— Matt Emmons

#measured

All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#could #cuisine #dining #elements #equal

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#acknowledged #adequate #against #british #colonies