Scale Quotes

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We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with… — Jenny Colgan
Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me… — Francesca Lia Block
She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there;… — Carol Ann Duffy
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly… — Charles Darwin
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I donâ€™t admit to… — Virginia Woolf
I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into… — David Levithan
Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to… — Rachel Caine
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.'… — Elie Wiesel
But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running… — Christopher McDougall
It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces — Stephen Hawking
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin,… — David Mitchell
... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale.… — Terry Eagleton
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as… — Philip Yancey
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. — Don DeLillo
Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of oneâ€™s life, but of the quality of oneâ€™s life. True… — Spencer W. Kimball
Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale. — Donna Tartt
Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said. — Darynda Jones
On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan — Kevin Hearne
Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance… — John Taylor Gatto

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