#scale

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

— Paul Sweeney

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

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#how #i #life #live #making

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#along #carnegie #father #grandfather #large

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#enchantment #magic #magical #perspective #scale

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#intimate #me #novel #political #scale

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#became #began #both #carry #cold

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale. ↗

— Phil Collen

#first #get #i #i think #large

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. ↗

— David Halberstam

#brought #chandler #did #excellence #grand

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me. ↗

— Lara St. John

#been #drudgery #ear #everything #grownups

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#father #happy #i #mortal #rejoice