Scales Quotes - Page 17

• Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

  Hugh Miller

  Prayer, Men, Keys

  Hugh Miller (1870). “The Headship of Christ: And, The Rights of the Christian People : a Collection of Essays, Historical and Descriptive Sketches, and Personal Portraitures with the Author's Celebrated Letter to Lord Brougham”, p.354

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• The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

  Bill Vaughan

  Boredom, Revolution, Causes

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• If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Death, Children, Loss

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (2013). “How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick”, p.120, PublicAffairs

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• I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Blow, Two Sides

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4591, Delphi Classics

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• Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

  Thomas Paine

  Two, Numbers, Individual

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.169, Ravenio Books

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• Each moss,
  Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank
  Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
  This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost
  Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
  Which Nature's self would rue.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Self, Important, Rue

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• Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

  Jeremy Collier

  Self, Omission, Quality

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• Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Summer, Food, Winter

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• I always tell my three daughters, it's not about the number on the scale, it's how you feel. You know you are going to feel better if you eat healthier.

  Martina McBride

  Daughter, Feel Better, Numbers

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

  Horace Bushnell

  Self, Redemption, Dry

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.237

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• The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.

  Marguerite Duras

  Death, Brother, Grief

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• Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.

  Delarivier Manley

  Justice, Waiting, Balance

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• Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

  Anita Roddick

  Technology, Economic Globalization, Benefits

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, Holocaust

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• No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down.

  John C. Maxwell

  Running, Team, Taken

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• Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Animal, Trying, Different

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

  Dorothy Cannell

  Children, Rain, Piano

  Dorothy Cannell (2013). “God Save the Queen!”, p.13, Belgrave House

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• Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

  Max Black

  Hate, Mean, Fine

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• We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  War, Fighting, Reality

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• Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.

  Robert Greene

  Marketing, Niche, Reaching

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• scales are the grammar of music.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Music, Grammar

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• We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.

  John Richard Reid

  Opportunity, Healthy, Unseen

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• Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Art, Responsibility, Privilege

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  Tadanobu Asano

  Japan, Other Worlds, Different

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