The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.
By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.
Practically, systemic thinking can be used to identify problems, analyze their boundaries, design strategies and policy interventions, forecast and measure their expected impacts, implement them, and monitor and evaluate their successes and failures.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission.
Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.
In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.