Scales famous quotes
06-23-2025
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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 -
Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.
-- Donna Tartt -
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
-- Edmund Beecher Wilson -
That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.
-- Edwin Lefevre -
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
-- Ellsworth Huntington -
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.
-- Etgar Keret -
Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.
-- Franz Bardon -
If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.
-- Fred Wilson -
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
-- Friedrich Engels -
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.
-- Gail Carriger -
One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.
-- Gary Hamel -
Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
-- George Eliot -
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
-- Hilary Mantel -
By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.
-- James Galway -
I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.
-- James Galway -
You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.
-- James Galway -
Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.
-- James Galway -
Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.
-- James Galway -
In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.
-- Jan Gehl -
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
-- Jeannette Rankin -
We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.
-- Jenny Colgan -
You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.
-- Jenny Han -
There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.
-- Jeremiah P. Ostriker -
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.
-- Jim Rohn -
Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.
-- John P. Kotter -
... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...
-- Julian Bream -
You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.
-- Kristin Cashore -
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
-- Lara St. John -
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss -
I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
-- Lindsey Buckingham -
Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.
-- Lloyd Biggle, Jr. -
Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
-- Lucy Larcom -
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
-- Margaret Drabble -
Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.
-- Marian Burros -
The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.
-- Marshall Fritz -
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
-- Martin Freeman -
Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental.
-- Massimo Vignelli -
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
-- Mel Gibson -
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
-- Morrie Schwartz -
The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.
-- N.D. Wilson -
Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.
-- Nancy Lancaster -
What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.
-- Neil Shubin -
War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.
-- Newton Lee -
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
-- Nicholas Lea -
If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.
-- Nicholas Stern -
My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
-- Pat Summerall -
Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.
-- Paul Weyrich -
One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.
-- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones -
Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.
-- Peter J. Carroll -
Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.
-- Pippa Middleton -
Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
-- Rachael Ray -
Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.
-- Randall Munroe -
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up
-- Reid Hoffman -
Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.
-- Richard Briers -
From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.
-- Richard Siken -
Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.
-- Roald Amundsen -
Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.
-- Robert Greene -
Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.
-- Robert Harris -
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
-- Rudolf Virchow -
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
-- Sammy Davis, Jr. -
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
-- Stanley Kubrick
