Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited -… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive… — Ed Diener Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image