Scales Quotes - Page 16

• We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Technology, Opportunity, Community

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• In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

  Natalie

  Perfection, One Day At A Time, Progress

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• Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it.  They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

  Orison S. Marden

  Real, Simple, Thinking

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• The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, Government, Asia

  Winston Churchill (1957). “The world crisis”

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• There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Government, Quality, Earth

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• I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

  Koren Zailckas

  Strong, Emotion, Argument

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• You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.

  Jenny Han

  Being In Love

  Jenny Han (2012). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• [D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Population, Ends

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• This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knowledge, Ideas, Pairs

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.

  James Monroe

  Character, Rights, Important

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• I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Taken, Self, Scary

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• Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Important, Dimensions

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Space, Important, Noise

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Color, Legs, Furniture

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Mistake, Mean, Color

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

  Nate Parker

  Healing, Native American, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Balance, Sides

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• The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Numbers, Humanity

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.295, Ivan R. Dee

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• An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Personality, Aspect

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.124, Ivan R. Dee

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• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.

  Frances Wright

  Ignorance, Race, Evil

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.24

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• Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics

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• No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
  The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Money, Gains

  Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). “The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)”

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• I own I never really warmed
  To the reformer or reformed.
  And yet conversion has its place
  Not halfway down the scale of grace.

  Robert Frost

  Grace, Reform, Halfway

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

  Herman Melville

  Perfection, Humanity, Would Be

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1031, Delphi Classics

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• There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.

  Herman Melville

  Race, Class, Chance

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.265

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