“But instead of a rust color, the hatchling's scales were blue and lavender.” — Midori Snyder Copy Share Image
From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale. — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine. — Max Black Copy Share Image
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much… — Anil Kapoor Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale. — C. K. Prahalad Copy Share Image
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale. — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
I also thought the music was a huge contribution, in terms of creating the scale of that. And, I was impressed with… — James Frain Copy Share Image
I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new… — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact,… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image