Measures Quotes

Climate change is real and needs honest debate about measures to restrain and remediate it. But that would be serious. So instead we are told the planet is going to burn up and our only option is to reverse millennia of human progress. And our leaders spent the last few years trying to win the approval of an angry Swedish teenager.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

A man may take measures to secure the happy action and to guard against the unhappy action.

Not men but measures"—a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man

No given measure and no given set of measures will work a perfect cure for any serious evil.

The Edwardians were preoccupied with the concept of progress, which they defined as measurable, scientific, and technical. But what about a word to describe progress in areas that defy any meaningful metric, such as love or elegance or amusement or mercy?

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a workable disguise." The quoting of an aphorism, such as "It takes a village to raise a child," "No news is good news," and "Love conquers all," rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen, which is why we provide our volunteers with a disguise kit in addition to helpful phrases of advice.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

There has to be measures for players to know the consequences for their actions.

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

The sympathy of India, deep and burning, for those passive resisters who were being dealt with by measures which could not for a moment be tolerated in any country that claims to be civilized.

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

So long as our politics are primarily concerned with men rather than measures, it will be men who will be attacked.

No politician is any longer interested in the question whether a measure is fit to produce the ends aimed at. What alone counts for him is whether the majority of the voters favor or reject it.

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

We, as ministers, do not claim that by virtue of our ordination, we have become statesmen, especially competent to guide and direct the government in its public policy, or in the adoption of measures for carrying that policy out; but, as the accredited and appointed teachers of religion and morals in the community, we feel it to be our duty to let this community and the nation know, beyond all guesswork, that we present a united front against barbarity, cruelty, and atrocity committed by any man anywhere where the flag of the United States floats.

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

The measures have not yet been devised which can permanently protect men from their folly.