#measuring

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight. ↗

— Delia Smith

#always #cooking #jug #measured #measuring

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#conscious #measuring #money #real #value

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

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#blessings #children #competitive #deficits #future

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#always #church #cultural #ethical #into

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#attain #case #comparing #immense #light

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#creed #free #free market #market #measurement

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cup #measured #measuring #mother #only

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#body #bone #data #density #figure

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birth #breakdown #children #driving #family