Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

Punk's influence on music movies art design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Measured in time of transport and communication the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy among other measures.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up that you have no concrete proof of.

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business but are essential to governing like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Since graduation I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement interview reading flight doctor's appointment birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character leadership creativity perseverance.

Those who govern having much business on their hands do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom but forced by the occasion.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for and beauty of accurate measurement.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature but the measure can be acquired by art.

In every work of art the subject is primordial whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

When thou art above measure angry bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.