#measured

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#measured #must #race #true #true worth

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#centuries #certainly #civilized #distant #exterminate

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

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#born #centuries #civilizations #decades #ideologies

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. ↗

— Francis Aungier

#away #bankers #extent #feeling #gave

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#against #fate #humanity #measured #our

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

#any #defined #described #down #far

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#another #causes #compared #cures #happiness

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. ↗

— William R. Alger

#how #little #measured #much #poverty

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living. ↗

— Graham Norton

#ambition #being #comic #enough #finally