Measure

Famous quotes containing the word measure:

    “The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

    “Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    “Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation appled to life.”
    —Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)