Scale Quotes

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

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.

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

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

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.

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.