Quotes of: Measure-of-a-man Keyword

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Grantland Rice

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese

A good man, but his mad dog won't let you speak to him.

Yiddish

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Chapterhouse: Dune

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

Circle In the Sand

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

...the end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.

Fearless

For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . .

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

A brick could be used to measure the speed of gravity, but an apple offers a tastier option.  

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

The Black Banner

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

The Black Cauldron

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

Bluebeard's Egg

We can't be sad for her," she murmured. "Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye.

Beyond All Measure

You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-

City of Ashes

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Alfred Adler

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy Thompson

The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.

Norman Geisler

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Louis Kahn

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

Chris Van Allsburg

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Robert Wilson