#measure

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. ↗

— Haniel Long

#best #bound #derive #family #fear

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#coral #find #growth #had #i

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#business #concrete #faith #may #measure

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew. ↗

— Demi Moore

#goes #having #measure #nice #nice things

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#al #country #enough #ensure #haven

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#gravity #how #like #mars #measure

Man is the measure of all things. ↗

— Protagoras

#man #measure #things

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings. ↗

— Hesham Qandil

#american #apply #attacking #buildings #compound

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure. ↗

— Sallust

#every #justifiable #measure #originated #precedent

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures. ↗

— Antonis Samaras

#austerity #become #due #goes #imposition