measure quotes

Je connais gens de toutes sortes Ils n'e  galent pas leur destin. I know people of all sorts They do not measure up to their destiny.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les  Alcools,'Marizibill'.

   Judgenot, that yebe not judged.For withwhat judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 7:1^2.

  And he said unto them,Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark 4:24.

And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark 7:37.

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 6:38.

Few evade full measure of their fate.

- (Harold) Hart Crane
  The Bridge,'The River'.

From wrong to wrong the exasperated spirit Proceeds, unless restored by that refining fire Where you must move in measure, like a dancer.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.2.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  Representative Men,'Plato'.

Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measureinthemake ofall things, themost likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts ofthe Creationwhich come withinourobservation must

- Stephen Hales
Canadian lawyer and satirist. In1835 he began a series of satiric sketches  later  enlarged  as The Clockmaker;  or The Sayings  and Doings of Samuel Slick (1836). The OldJudge;  or Life in a Colony (1849) combines social history and satire.

Est modus in rebus. There is a measure in things.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Satirae, bk.1, no.1, l.106.

  We measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

- Edwin Powell Hubble
Quoted in Dennis Overbye Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (1991).

Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave to heaven the measure and the choice.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.351^2.

Themeasure of loveiswhatoneiswilling togiveup for it.

- Albert Lewin
  Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.

No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

- Frances Perkins
On the depression of the1930s which inspired her to set up the Social Security system. Recalled on her death,14 May1965.

Instead of using onlycomparativeWords and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course†to express myself inTerms of Number,Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.

- Sir William Petty
  Political Arithmetick.

To the beat of the measure From star-up to the half-dark From half-dark to half-dark Unceasing the measure.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  Eleven New Cantos, no.34.

Man is the measure of all things, of the existence of the things that are, and the non-existence of the things that are not.

-Protagoras
Fragment quotedin PlatoTheaetetus,152a (translatedby H North Fowler,1977).

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Prometheus Unbound, act 2, sc.4, l.72^3.

Of all journals, and of all writers, those will obtain the largest measure of public support who have told the truth most constantly and most fearlessly.

-TheTimes
  Leading article, 6 Feb.