People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up. — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one… — Norah O'Donnell Copy Share Image
States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale,… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his forehead… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
But it seems Ive got this set of scales inside me that I never used to have, or at least I wasnt… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale. — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
