Quotes and Sayings About Scales
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
-- Albert Camus -
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
-- Aldous Huxley -
What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.
-- Alex Trebek -
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
-- Alexander Pope -
Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.
-- Alexander Smith -
I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.
-- Alison Krauss -
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
-- Amos Oz -
I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving
-- Anne McKevitt -
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
-- Bertrand Russell -
The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale,
-- Boris Johnson -
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
-- Brendan Gill -
Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.
-- Brian Chesky -
I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.
-- Brooke Burke -
War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.
-- Claire Danes -
I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.
-- Craig Mundie -
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.
-- Darynda Jones -
I’m grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease,
-- David Chang -
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.
-- David Eagleman -
What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
