It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
I strongly support the bipartisan immigration measure previously passed by the Senate, and when I served in Congress I was proud to have helped introduce the House version of the bill. I also strongly support the DREAM Act.
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
Because record companies do not routinely release sales figures the way film studios do, the weekly charts in trade publications like ‘Billboard’ provide the best independent measure of record appeal.
Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
You should measure me by my actions, the friends I keep, and the charities I support, not by the politics of my husband.
Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.
I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, ‘Oh, I did ‘Hill Street Blues’ or ‘L.A. Law’ and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,’ it would paralyze you.
I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world – again?
Inch for inch, the 6-foot-3 Westbrook is the NBA’s most sensationally talented player, a relentlessly explosive basket-attacker with a deadly pull-up jumper – a top-10 NBA player by any big-picture statistical measure from Player Efficiency Rating to Win Shares.
Americans will forever be proud of the brave men and women of our armed forces who served in World War II, and we will never forget those who paid the last full measure of devotion for our country. Their service protected our freedom and changed the course of history around the world.
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
I’m bothered when people don’t understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.
I’m not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.
Women look at the full measure of the man, not just one comment.
You can measure a man’s capacity by the depth of his mistakes.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
A lot of people think growth hormone is going to increase the size of your internal organs which bloats the waistline. So I went and had a battery of tests where they actually measure all of your internal organs and mine were all normal.
Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual’s exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
If you want to measure yourself with Barcelona, Chelsea and Manchester United, you, as Bayern Munich, need a philosophy. That must be the aim of the club.
People would measure you by your shape, you used to find a lot of male athletes peeling off their tops – just to say, ‘Have some of this.’ I guess my abs were a sign to people. ‘Watch out, she’s in shape.’
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don’t you let it out then?
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.
I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.
The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn’t matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
Just suppose that you could do a physical examination, not every year, which people do and which is almost worthless, but every minute, because you’re connected, and because we have devices that you can put on your body that measure virtually everything on your body.
Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
Practically, systemic thinking can be used to identify problems, analyze their boundaries, design strategies and policy interventions, forecast and measure their expected impacts, implement them, and monitor and evaluate their successes and failures.
Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.
In my lab, we’re finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of the tips of the chromosomes, those telomeres.
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
I did a soft drink ad some time back. Later, a mother came to me and said that her child started consuming more of that drink after seeing my ad. It made me measure my actions.
We measure everything – why not governance?
You always want to see the best players in action at a World Cup, and the players always want to measure themselves up to the very best.
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
You don’t divorce simply because your spouse has a number of qualities you dislike and on occasions makes your life uncomfortable. If you are reasonable, you view divorce as a measure of last resort. There are many steps you can take in the meantime. You might even call in a trained mediator.
It’s nice, being brought up with no money at all. It’s just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
My first acting lessons were Shakespeare. The first time I ever started working with a coach was doing scenes from ‘Measure for Measure,’ which were tough dramatic scenes. And then ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ which required comedic timing. And that’s the kind of stuff I love.
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
A factory-installed security measure – one that phone owners would have to opt out of, rather than opting in – could automatically render purloined devices inoperable on any network, anywhere in the world. No resale value, no thefts.
The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?
The best measure of inflation is what is happening with commodity prices.
At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
The digital team who were running Twitter, they weren’t just going to put out a tweet for fun. They’re going to try and figure out how do we measure the impact. Then they’d tweet it, and if it worked, great.
The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.
All four elements were happening in equal measure – the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
We shouldn’t measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.
My winter uniform is jeans, boots, and an oversize blazer for good measure. It’s my formula for getting dressed in under 10 minutes.
While it’s very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there’s no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I’ve seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.
The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the ‘Times’ obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
