Scale Quotes

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There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost… — Tom Brokaw
War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine… — Adrien Brody
If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does… — Daniel Pinchbeck
I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale. — Alison Krauss
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons… — Charles Krauthammer
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What… — Rem Koolhaas
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy… — Newt Gingrich
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 at… — Ed Diener
The fact that â€˜attention seekingâ€™ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale. — Laurie Penny
If you care about shorebirds and the habitats they rely on, you canâ€™t do better than supporting Manometâ€™s Shorebird Recovery Project. It connects, nurtures, prods,… — Phillip Hoose
Iâ€™m grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease, — David Chang
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places… — Le Corbusier
You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an… — Wallace Stegner
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short,… — Barack Obama
Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. — Jamie Dimon
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when… — Ansel Adams
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 mother… — Edward Abbey
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… — Hannah Arendt
Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately… — Zbigniew Brzezinski

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