#meter

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#barometer #society #virtue

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. ↗

— Alain Robert

#climbing #first #going #last #mean

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#also #barometer #forget #let us #may

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#desire #even #failure #field #i

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung... I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is laid to rest, it will be a well needed rest from a life well lived, a song well sung, a book well written, opportunities well explored, and a love well expressed. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#books #cemetery #dreams #echoes #goals

I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that. ↗

— LeBron James

#dash #field #i #i love #love

I certainly didn't think of a world record in the first 50 meters because I was simply too slow for that. ↗

— Otylia Jedrzejczak

#certainly #first #i #meters #record

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires. ↗

— Ron Kind

#constraints #ethical #free #free world #i

When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#day #freedom #lots #newspapers #next

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#assassinated #been #before #cemetery #ended