Quotes of: Measure-of-a-man Keyword

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

William F. Buckley Jr.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

Walter Lord

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

David Hilbert

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Yoko Ono

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

B. R. Ambedkar

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clea...

Marcus Buckingham

But she wasn't a wife and mother. And, Joey aside, she didn't want to be one. Her mother had spend every last minute cooking for Papa, cleaning for Papa, looking nice for Papa, entertaining for Papa, producing babies for Papa. The measuring stick she...

Fair Play

He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of at least a measure of social justice to those whom social justice had so long been denied. The restorer of at least a measure of dignity to t...

The Passage of Power

A young man idle, an old man needy.

English

The poor man and the rich man do not play together.

Ghanaian

Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. To that end she had tried banning television in the ea...

On Beauty

My love, a person is better judged by how they treat their inferiors than their betters. That is the true measure of a man, or a woman. Think you that you are so far above Lata?" "If I am to be your wife then I shall be far above her and she had bett...

Reading is Magic

That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make you happy, then send him back from "whence" he came be...

Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.

Chinese

A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.

Greek

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive.

Fall

What gets measured gets improved.

The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

David Harvey

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

Robert Fortune

True kindness is the greatest measure of a person.

Just Being Audrey