With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that… — Barrett Tillman Copy Share Image
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale. — Trinny Woodall Copy Share Image
If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Due to budget crunches, Bush has had to scale some of the programs. He has a new program, 'Leave A Couple of… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage.… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I think more like a quantum Buddhist, in that there is a universal proto-conscious mind which we access, and can influence us.… — Stuart Hameroff Copy Share Image
We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
As far as being an African artist, my inspiration has been the fact that I'm a part of the generation that will… — Iceberg Slim Copy Share Image
Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that.… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following… — Jeff Weiner Copy Share Image
What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the… — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
I think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it… — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden… — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale. — Tan Le Copy Share Image
The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
I knew if I wanted to improvise over chord changes, I'd have to figure out all the scales that went with all… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image