Scales Quotes · Page 9

*I just want to slap the fuck out of whoever invented scales because all they do is depress fat fucks*

— Author Name

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

— Amos Oz

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

— Naomi Klein

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

— Julian Bream

Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

— William Shakespeare

When you give something, just for the joy of creating, it always comes back on a much larger scale.

— Ji Lee

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

— Carol O'Connell

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

— George R. R. Martin

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the…

— Eleanor Catton

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay.…

— Etgar Keret

We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already.…

— George Dyson

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to…

— Asa Gray

An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can…

— Robert Gilman

A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it…

— Frederick Lenz

I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.

— Morgan Parker

I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale…

— Robert Frost

MapReduce has become the assembly language for big data processing, and SnapReduce employs sophisticated techniques to compile SnapLogic data integration pipelines into…

— Greg Benson

Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership…

— Gar Alperovitz

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

— Ruth Simmons

We are very confident that the data is showing that carbon capture and sequestration is technologically feasible and it's available. It has…

— Gina McCarthy

Russia could be, in fact, it would have to be a different Russia, but it could be a splendid ally. I will…

— Daniel Fried

I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super…

— Kerry James Marshall

The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all,…

— Hilaire Belloc

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of…

— Amanda Ripley

I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil;…

— John Burroughs

On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time.…

— John McPhee

But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For…

— Bill Bryson

Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into…

— Elinor Ostrom

Suppose hypothetically that one out of every 200 people or so is a jerk. In today's world these jerks will discover that…

— Michael Strong

Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from…

— George Saunders

There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth…

— Satish Kumar

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

— Edouard Vuillard

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

— Adam Gopnik

IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.

— Ginni Rometty

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

— Mariah Carey

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

— Demetri Martin

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

— Dave Navarro

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

— Thomas Carlyle