Best Scales Quotes
943 Scales quotes by 786 unique authors
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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time,…
— Jeff Sessions
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You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No,…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let…
— Lucretia Mott
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Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale…
— Lucy Stone
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so…
— Charlotte Mason
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I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in…
— Vince Gironda
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
— Philip Roth
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like…
— Annie Lennox
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The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way…
— Natalie Portman
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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
— James A. Baldwin
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All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I'm not saying anything one way or the other about the two ballot issues. I am not speaking about the particular ballot issues. Those are…
— Mitt Romney
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Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then…
— Charles Francis Richter
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Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within…
— Rose of Lima
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Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America.…
— George W. Bush
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Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
— Lucy Larcom
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
— George Eliot
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Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
— Bertrand Russell
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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
— David McCullough
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