Scales Quotes - Page 40

During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.

Martin Filler

Jobs, Ideas, Income

Luis Fernández Galiano, Martin Filler (2000). “El siglo americano: The American century”

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You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

Charles Jencks

Horse, Talking, Culture

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I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and a proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the non-plused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.

Joan Didion

Children, Men, Keys

FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 10, 2011

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...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

Christopher Paolini

Fate, Hands, Worry

Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.434, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

Dag Hammarskjold

Violence, Bitter, Killing

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He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

Nick Hornby

Chocolate, Ends, Teapots

"A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

Anderson Cooper

Crush, Children, Stories

Anderson Cooper (2008). “Dispatches from the Edge: Memoir of War, Disasters, & Survival”, Harper Paperbacks

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She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.

Jeanette Winterson

Beautiful, Blow, Paris

Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.21, Random House

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The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.

Ian Caldwell

Home, Adventure, Waiting

Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.

Rebecca Solnit

Car, Missing, World

Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.196, Penguin

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You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.

Terry Pratchett

Space, Dragons, Trying

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Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

Frank Herbert

Crush, Individuality, Balance

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.54, Penguin

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What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Art, Lines, Ascending

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.

George Saunders

War, Guy, Slaughterhouse Five

George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.82, A&C Black

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Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].

H. P. Blavatsky

Reality, Ideas, Ego

H P Blavatsky (2015). “An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine”, p.39, Quest Books

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And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

C. S. Lewis

Loneliness, Envy, Hatred

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How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

Lewis Carroll

Water, Shining, Tails

Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad.

Louise Rennison

Numbers, Mad, News

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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.

Jasper Fforde

Sharks, Whales, Thursday

Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.

Gustave Flaubert

Serious Person, Sticks, Gestures

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He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

Lord Byron

Art, Riding, Fencing

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.144, Routledge

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My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is served, except when a can won't open. That's the way she is: fine unless something goes wrong and that minor obstacle becomes a huge wall she can't scale. She becomes helpless whenever things don't go smoothly, or exactly as she imagined them.

Gregory Galloway

Mother, Wall, Trying

Gregory Galloway (2006). “As Simple as Snow”, p.35, Penguin

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We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Charlotte Bronte

God, Nature, Night

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.264, Penguin

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On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.

Joel Salatin

Hate, Animal, Disrespect

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There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

Anna Godbersen

Envy, Pleasure, Mass

Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.37, Harper Collins

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