Best fall & scales Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.”

Men Humans Kind Fall Sex Levels Destiny Lows Scales Cultivation Kind Man

Book:Course of popular lectures: with three addresses, on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures: with three addresses, on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.”

Giving Action Certain Fall Enemy Virtue Seeing Satisfaction Revenge Scales Contentment Behalf Benevolent Humiliated Concessions

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”

Thinking Firsts Matter Young Death Fall Easy Consciousness Steps Balance Weight Scales Life And Death Gravity Unthinkable

Book:Temporary Homelands

Source: Temporary Homelands

“I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.”

Children Character Body Hands Bigs Fall Feet Size Disaster Scales Hands And Feet Bad Character

Author:Gore Vidal

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