Might was the measure of right.
Success can not be measured in dollars and cents.
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
You're measured by championships no matter what.
Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
I admire President Obama's class and measure.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Desperate measures call for desperate times.
In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
How does one measure the success of a museum?
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer f...
I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key, Dad’s creations made me feel scared and small. I saw a private part of the man I could not measure up to. At si...
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives anci...
No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You’ve been caught, my friend. You may as well reconcile yourself to it.” Nick did not bother trying to deny it. “I w...
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, s...
