#scale

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? ↗

— Philip Roth

#human #human being #intelligent #large-scale #likely

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#additional #extremity #i #observe #only

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#different #different subjects #fed #implanted #increase

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book. ↗

— John Sayles

#acting #agent #book #i #like

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

— Morrie Schwartz

#psychology #rats #scales #tipped #working

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives. ↗

— Jill Scott

#children #home #influencing #lives #mother

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#bunch #coming #deliver #democrats #expect

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#exchange #future #i #i am #important

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#does #education #know #make #priority

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#scales #self-delusion #step #stomach #you