Scale Quotes
1006 quotes by 864 authors
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Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could…
— Alexander Masters
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We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are…
— Dada Vaswani
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We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.
— Frank Layden
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale,
— Boris Johnson
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Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must…
— Leonard Woolf
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Suppose hypothetically that one out of every 200 people or so is a jerk. In today's world these jerks will discover that if they enter…
— Michael Strong
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Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
— C. K. Prahalad
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If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait…
— Michael Medved
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What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope…
— Steve Largent
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Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing…
— Charlie Munger
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I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress…
— Bill Mollison
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Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale.…
— Joe Biden
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I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or…
— Camille Paglia
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Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.
— Pippa Middleton
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War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.
— Newton Lee
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The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several…
— Cesar Pelli
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The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around him…
— Geoffrey Jellicoe
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I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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