Scales Quotes - Page 24

• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

  Robin McKinley

  Country, Dust, Land

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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• I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Individual Effort, Magic

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• Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Determination, Long, Giving

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• Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss-the dissolution of the familiar self-is beyond what was bargained for.

  Jan Frazier

  Spiritual, Believe, Loss

  Jan Frazier (2012). “The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is”, p.63, Weiser Books

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• When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Children, Community

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.639, Best Books on

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• I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

  Camille Henrot

  Wall, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.

  Fede Alvarez

  Want, Panic Attacks, Sci Fi

  Source: collider.com

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• I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary to bring you in - a sense of economy, a sense of scale, which just seemed to understand the medium so well. When you see that in a younger actor, I always think it speaks to incredible knowledge. I can't exactly figure out where that comes from, that confidence to know how to be quiet.

  Todd Haynes

  Thinking, Actors, Quiet

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Body image has nothing to do with scale numbers, it's how you feel inside.

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Numbers, Body, How You Feel

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• So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Beer, Thinking, Mexican

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• The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only on a percentage basis. The investor is concerned with percentage gain or loss, not the number of points traveled in a market average. Arithmetic scale is quite acceptable for tracking hourly waves. Channeling techniques work acceptably well on arithmetic scale with shorter term moves.

  Robert Prechter

  Moving, Loss, Average

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• If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.

  Marissa Mayer

  Thinking, Balls, Size

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• The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

  Tony Benn

  Internet, Bigs, Streets

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• [The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Government, Rooms

  "Supreme Court Justice Bans Media From Free Speech Event". www.govtech.com. March 19, 2003.

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• If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.

  Newt Gingrich

  Horse, Government, Lobbyists

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• The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

  George Orwell

  Average, Class, Soul

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Would Be, Branches

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.

  Jim Rogers

  Exercise, Practice, Each Day

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• An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Safety, Needs, Resources

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.141, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Opportunity, Stories, World

  Source: collider.com

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• It really showed that you can do a major motion picture, from the folks at Marvel, that has multiple characters on an epic scale. On top of that, it also showed us that one of the most important elements is a certain kind of levity.

  Jeph Loeb

  Character, Epic, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.

  James Mangold

  Drama, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Thinking, Honest, Weighing

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• The question itself [of UFOs] I think is legitimate. It's interesting, it's fascinating. It's mythic in scale and one of the grand questions. It's like the God question or, you know, the meaning-of-life question. It's one of those, on that scale. So you'd have to be made of wood not to be interested and, you know, have they come here? Are they up there?

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Interesting, Meaning Of Life

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• Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

  Brian Eno

  Quality, Awful, Sound

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