Scope Quotes - Page 12

• Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.

  Napoleon Hill

  World, Operations

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.83, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

  Mark Haddon

  Imagination, Use, Care

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.

  Marc Jacobs

  White, Kilts, Shirts

  Interview With Calvin Klein, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Real, Ignorance

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.249, Random House

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• PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Animal, Pigs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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• What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

  Isabel Paterson

  Doe, Done, World

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

  Michael Servetus

  Mistake, Want, Argument

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• At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

  David Lavender

  Country, Dawn, Awakening

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• So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

  Milton Friedman

  Long, Drug, Serious

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (1985). “Tyranny of the status quo”

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• Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

  Tom Stoppard

  Gone, Irony, Talent

  "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". Book by Tom Stoppard, www.goodreads.com. 1966.

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• The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

  Joel Silver

  Want, Bigger, Descending

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope 
of their father. As long as they’re under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters can’t just go out 
independently and say, ‘I’m going to marry whoever I want.’ No. The father has 
the ability to say, ‘No, I’m sorry, that has to be approved by me.’

  Doug Phillips

  Daughter, Sorry, Father

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• If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didnt just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Communication, Technology, Phones

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• Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Taken, Passion

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• 'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Philosophy, Writing, Details

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Men, Space

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• And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

  Katherine Dunn

  Military, Soldier, Terrorist Groups

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

  Zara Phillips

  Thinking, Mind, Hats

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• A confidence man knows he’s lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says — and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.

  Jubal

  Lying, Believe, Successful

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• I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

  John T. Scopes

  Roles, Trials, Body

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• To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ideas, Imagination, Reaching

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (2009). “The Path of the Law”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Humanity, Goes On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1182, Manonmani Publishers

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• ...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Technology, One Direction

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• INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Two, Poetry

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.104, 谷月社

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