Scales Quotes · Page 52

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy…

— Christopher Hitchens

The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that…

— Harrison Ford

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

— Naomi Klein

Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the…

— Alan Greenspan

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

— Edouard Vuillard

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

— Murray Leinster

“Braith turned and saw three of her cousins sunning themselves on boulders. Like lizards. Lizards in human form. “What are you doing?”…

— G.A. Aiken

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

— Neil Shubin

Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the…

— Jeff Sessions

Some dream in color. We dream in scale.

— Beth Comstock

... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...

— Julian Bream

When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for…

— Paul Gigot

There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you…

— Paul Lansky

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.

— Sylvia Earle

It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad…

— Adolf Hitler

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of…

— Ruth Simmons

All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of…

— Peter Ustinov

My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you,…

— Christian Slater

Playing pentatonic scales over orchestral music is not something I want to do or listen to.

— Bryce Dessner

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for…

— Steven Soderbergh

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

— Mason Cooley