Scales Quote by Author Name

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to…

— Bill McKibben

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities;…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

— Ayn Rand

Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're…

— Ed Diener

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

— Noam Chomsky

I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…

— Isaac Newton

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years…

— Ilya Prigogine

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality…

— John Edgar Wideman

The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are…

— Eliot Spitzer

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…

— Edward Abbey

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

— Jim Rohn