Measure

Famous quotes containing the word measure:

“I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)