Scale Quotes

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Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… — William Gibson
On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one. — Ilona Andrews
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that… — Bob Dylan
Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony:… — Fumiko Enchi
Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a… — Michael Crichton
Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through… — Terry Goodkind
Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family;… — W. Cleon Skousen
Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there… — Harlan Coben
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten.… — James Patterson
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as… — Lewis Thomas
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale. — Stephenie Meyer
There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance. — Jodi Picoult
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read… — Mark Twain
Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with… — Max Brooks
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line… — Thomas Hardy
Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to… — Jeaniene Frost
One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it… — Michael Robotham
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud… — Bill Bryson

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