Scales Quotes

• Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Beautiful, Mean, Destiny

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• On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

  Amos Oz

  Parent, Western, Values

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

  Ethel Merman

  Sometimes, Conflict, Corny

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Psychology, Rats, Involved

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

  John Stott

  Friday, Jesus, Crosses

  John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright (2015). “Christian Mission in the Modern World”, p.72, InterVarsity Press

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• Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

  Nelson Mandela

  White, Justice, Atmosphere

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.212, Pan Macmillan

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• Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

  Barney Kessel

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Numbers, Jewels, Groceries

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• The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

  Aesop

  Life, Suffering, Injury

  Aesop (1809). “Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists: In Three Books”, p.240

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• On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera for serum proteins does not succeed so regularly as with agglutinins and lysins for blood cells. This may be due to the fact that in the evolutional scale the proteins undergo continuous variations whereas cell antigens are subject to sudden changes not linked by intermediary stages.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Science, Cells, Blood

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• Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

  Murray Leinster

  Adventure, Waiting, Toss

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• Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.

  Harley Pasternak

  Motivational, Fitness, Work Out

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• I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

  Dick Dale

  Patience, Anger, Frustration

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• Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Men, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Two, Weight, Arms

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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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 the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?

  Vince Gironda

  Workout, Business, Love Yourself

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• The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

  Dean Koontz

  Quality, Inability, Details

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam

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• Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Suffering, Literature

  "Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

  Satish Kumar

  War, People, Leader

  "Soul man" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

  Michael Robotham

  Balance, Together, Strange

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• I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our need to live within a habitable zone and to do so without using air conditioning and heating in the way that is so incredibly expensive to the environment.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, Air, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Fall, Heart

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• It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but that comes very naturally to me. From the beginning, I never followed trends. If I was aware of them, I didn't care, for I believed as I do now, that rooms should be timeless and very personal. I don't set out to achieve a particular style. And I certainly don't have a 'look' - just a mishmash of everything that somehow, by instinct, usually turns out to be a warm imaginative, 'living room'.

  Sister Parish

  Eye, Color, Style

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• "Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

  Samuel Smiles

  Thinking, Achievement, Able

  Samuel Smiles (2017). “Self-Help: The Original Guide to Bootstrapping Your Success”, p.198, Courier Dover Publications

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