#measure

On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#any #bank #been #bonds #country

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#aristocracy #came #century #character #directed

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#because #books #close #hard #i

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#children #dictates #even #landscape #measure

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#attainable #helps #measure #probability #psychology

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#better #children #come #consistently #divorced

All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#could #cuisine #dining #elements #equal

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#acknowledged #adequate #against #british #colonies

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#life #measured #much #obstacles #overcome

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#i #i have learned #learned #life #measured