#measure

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. ↗

— Robert South

#earnest #man #measure #needs #praying

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#although #annual #assessment #connecticut #every

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#apply #author #enough #many #measure

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

#deceptive #film #measure #skills #very

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. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#articles #brings #dwarf #him #his

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#breadth #child #class #climb #economy

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#always #effects #gets #just #measure

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#exact #exact measure #find #imposed #injustice

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#deal #had #last #last year #measure

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years. ↗

— Tim Bray

#days #having #idea #launch #like