Brushes Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Download Open image “... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aside Scales Brush Aside Brushes Delusion Delusions Follies Delusions Folly Ifs Judgment Scales Scales Follies
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit. — Randall Munroe 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 the last… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this. — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
“We use our minds in a way similar to how we use a scale - it tells us its worth, its value. But what… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. — Edwin Edwards Copy Share Image
Yet, it had been Dimitri’s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional… — Dave Stevens Copy Share Image
Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
My whole philosophy in survival is to take down brush as soon as you get in a situation. — Joe Teti Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a… — Taissa Farmiga Copy Share Image
