#measure

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves. ↗

— James Buchan

#because #explain #fellows #fine #lot

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. ↗

— Samuel Chase

#depend #general #good #government #great

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#cities #convinced #deal #extraordinary #face

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bad #because #been #cycle #falling

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#measure #placed #statistics #type #used

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#art #exhausted #generally #great #her

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#best #business #carrying #considering #execution

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#damn #executives #great #measured #men

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. ↗

— James Lovelock

#could #country #every #ii #just

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. ↗

— John Malkovich

#comfortable #failed #father #felt #i