#measure

Life... is a paradise to what we know of death. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#philosophy #shakespeare #death

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#conceit #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #measure

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#animal #crushes #dignity #even #foot

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. ↗

— James Allen

#effort #efforts #human #human affairs #measure

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#nature #profit #right #state

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#down #eating #find #get #gets

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. ↗

— William Blake

#folly #hours #measure #measured #wisdom

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#biggest #biology #budgets #century #discoveries

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply. ↗

— Leo Bogart

#apply #cannot #far #great #great idea

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#donation #duration #life #measure