Scale Quotes

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Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. — Richard Hammond
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes… — William J. Clinton
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of… — Richard Hough
In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of… — Wernher von Braun
One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind… — Zoroaster
Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling… — Clive Barker
Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing… — James P. Hoffa
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The grand scale and immersive nature of The IMAX Experience gives Spiderwick a brand new level of excitement. In IMAX theatres, fans will be drawn… — Mark Canton
I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale. — Naomi Klein
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the… — Mahatma Gandhi
It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its… — Charles Dickens
The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a… — James Fallows
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. — Andre Malraux
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a… — Noel Coward
...I will praise the English climate till I dieâ€”even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth… — Derek Prince
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a… — Albert Einstein
The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an… — Wendell Berry
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and… — Jacob Bronowski

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