Best Scales Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“One thing might bring unity to Olympus again—an old wrong finally avenged. Ah, that would be sweet indeed, the scales finally balanced! But it will not happen unless you accept my help.”

Balance Unity Scales Wrong Old Avenged Old Wrong

Book:The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“Braith turned and saw three of her cousins sunning themselves on boulders. Like lizards. Lizards in human form. “What are you doing?” Braith asked. “Enjoying the suns,” replied one. “It gives our scales a lovely bright hue,” said another. Braith blinked. “Except you’re all in your human form. So how does that help your scales?” They stared at her for several seconds before one stated, “You’re a bit of a know-it-all, aren’t you?” “How is that . . .” Braith shook her head. She wouldn’t go from arguing with one idiot to arguing with three.”

Humor Logic Scales Dragons Idiots Sunning

Book:A Tale of Two Dragons

Source: A Tale of Two Dragons

“But scales hung before me and obscured my mind. Fateful, terrible scales! How did it come about that all this fell from my eyes, that all of a sudden I saw the light and understood everything?”

Scales See The Light A Gentle Creature

Book:A Gentle Creature and Other Stories

Source: A Gentle Creature and Other Stories

“Anubis is associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journeys through Denver International Airport to the afterlife. He is usually portrayed as being half human and half jackal, and holding a metal detector in his hand ... Anubis is employed by the Department of Homeland Security to examine the hearts of all travellers to make sure they have not exceeded the weight limit for psychological baggage ... He is also shown frisking mummies and confiscating firearms and other contraband. It doesn't take much to tip the scales in favour of a dead body cavity search or an afterlifetime travel ban.”

Source: The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella

“Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!”

Music Scales Chords Music Theory Hack Music Theory

Book:Hack Music Theory, Part 1: Learn Scales & Chords in 30 minutes

Source: Hack Music Theory, Part 1: Learn Scales & Chords in 30 minutes

“I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales.”

Water Scales Swimming Mermaids Fins Being In The Water Quotes About Swimming

Author:April Mae Monterrosa

“We feel the most balance when we're not dividing ourselves on other people's scales.”

Inspirational Life Quotes Self Help Judging Self Love Scales Balance Quotes

Author:Curtis Tyrone Jones

“She grinned. Lifted herself up on her elbow so she could look down at him, and said, "Now that you've recovered, ready to go again?”

Romance Broken Scales Mending

Book:Scales

Source: Scales

“The rash on her legs is peeling, coming off her in great pale strips, like the discarded skin of a snake. Below it, the flesh isn't pink and raw, or dotted with blood. Instead it glimmers, changing color with the light of the storm. Green then blue, then the pinkish white of mother-of-pearl. Iridescent as scales.”

Scales Colors Mermaid Skin Iridescent

Book:The Sirens

Source: The Sirens

“Add boyish, slim as a board, pancake. It's okay, I've heard it all." He raised his head and said mildly, "I wasn't thinking in terms of your chest size." "Good thing as I don't have one." She smirked and popped a big chunk of potato into her mouth. "The nice thing is I can run without those things flying in my face, too." And damn if she didn't make a comical face that had him shouting with laughter.”

Romance Broken Scales Mending

Book:Scales

Source: Scales

“When they were only a foot apart, both nude, she swayed toward him. He tugged her close, feeling her shock as heated skin met hot skin. God, he wanted her. His need was something he couldn't hide. Lord was she beautiful. Long, lean, muscled, but gently rounded everywhere. "Are you--" Her mouth latched onto his, silencing him as she began to explore his body. Yeah, he;d have to say...she was sure.”

Romance Broken Scales Mending

Book:Scales

Source: Scales

“He'd never met anyone quite like her. Then he couldn't think as her hand slid down his back to his buttocks and squeezed. Her toes slowly climbed his calves, and he realized she hadn't just enjoyed the first time around. She had learned. As she slid her hand between them to find him, his eyes crossed. "Christ", he whispered as her fingers closed around him, her body sliding lower and lower. She'd learned a hell of a lot.”

Romance Broken Scales Mending

Book:Scales

Source: Scales

“The figure’s exposed arms were so scarred and burnt they almost looked like they were covered with scales. Bright silver hair hung down over the man’s frighteningly large, glowing eyes.”

Scales Frightening Scars Figure Sorcerer

Book:Children of the Dead City

Source: Children of the Dead City

“Each life - a unique story. Each lifeform - a unique book of stories. If I condemn the life of one for doing good, one's story is enriched - by my own enrichment. Forgiveness, therefore preserves and creates a different kind of wealth. And, we're all part of the same book. Once the ink joins the fabric of the paper, it's final. Who decides the final page?”

Philosophy Saint Scales Storytelling Fish Referee Socrates Embassy Penalty Tribunal

Author:Cosmaristw

“Nanotechnology is working below micrometers to add functional density to materials.”

Scales Nanotechnology Sizes

Author:Edilson Gomes de Lima

“But instead of a rust color, the hatchling's scales were blue and lavender.”

Scales Dinosaurs Amazing Technicolor Wildlife

Book:Hatchling

Source: Hatchling

“I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.”

Home Running Practice Player Type Scales

Author:Dave Navarro

“The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.”

People America Given Term Gone Four Cutting Taxes Congress Scales Income Relief Tax Cuts

Author:Richard Neal

“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.”

Years Children Different Wanted Mother Social Genius Years Ago Doctors Bottom Lawyer Scales Cooks Thirty Architect

Author:Jacques Pepin

“I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.”

Persons Made School Suffering Fun Social Degrees Average Scales Labels Arrows Slings And Arrows Being Made Fun

Author:Jim Parsons

“I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.”

Ifs Way Believe Fighting I Believe Expression Flow Majority Scales This Life Swim Swimming Amazing Things Tilt

Author:Michael J. Fox

“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.”

Thinking Social Program Democrat Scales Bunch Nuts Large Scale Social Programs

Author:Donna Shalala

“If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Turns Fiction Ought Models Scales Better Than You

Author:George Saunders

“Entities are beings that are dead. They are the lowest beings on the evolutionary scale because they don't even know they are dead. They are so stupid. What they seek is life again - they come into the world of the living.”

Knows World Stupid Scales Entity Lowest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Entities have died, but what they seek is life again. They miss it. They want to experience food again, basic things. They are low on the evolutionary scale. They want to experience the joy of destroying something.”

Want Joy Missing Lows Died Scales Destroying Entity Basic Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.”

Ifs Used Response Scales Fuel Capture Carbon Coal Storage

Author:Nicholas Stern

“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.”

Knows Doe Problem America Skills Priorities Scales

Author:Tavis Smiley

“I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.”

Thinking Knows Littles Community Heard Scene Scales Dialogue Nervous African American

Author:Gabrielle Union

“I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.”

Sometimes Character Bigs Decision Stage Design Scene Scales I've Learned Illustration Overcrowding

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.”

Kind Two Film Next Fiction Audience Smart Science Fiction Scales Mediums Fantastic Budgets Twelve Favourite Hitting Runners Monkeys Blades Blade Runner

Author:Duncan Jones

“When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.”

“Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.”

Two States Interest Party Willing Tools Function Trade Scales Goods Textbooks Sellers Buyers Large Scale Private Parts

Author:Charles C. Mann

“Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.”

“My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.”

People Art Dream Together Planets Flower Conversation Scales Beacons Rallying Rallying Point

Author:Ana Tzarev

“Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.”

Hate Left Growing Streets Tears Size Scales Violent Scope Unprecedented

Author:Glenn Beck

“Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers.”

Thinking Want Conflict Nuclear Scales Russia Thank God Nuclear Power Large Scale Unleashing

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.”

“On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.”

Kind Persons Suffering Evil Jesus Sin Common Healing Compassion Theory Lessons Philosophical Casts Scales Avoiding Healed Theological

Author:Philip Yancey

“The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.”

Needs Dream Next Asks Progress Resources Charity Rate Scales Apples Google Next Time Amazon Overhead

Author:Dan Pallotta

“If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.”

Ifs Talking Skins Scales Sculpture

Author:Anish Kapoor

“Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to have a lot of creative scale; it has to be unique.”

People Way Helping Creative Unique Wide Scales

Author:J. Christopher Burch

“From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.”

Scales Landscape

Book:War of the Foxes

Source: War of the Foxes

“People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.”

People Children Two Faces Careers Demand Scales

Author:Jodi Kantor

“The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.”

Results Quality Leader Technology Fronts Internet Higher Cost Rewards Scales Shops Online Trading Mourn Amazon Bookstores Market Leaders

Author:John Katzman

“I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.”

Ifs Running Decided I Realized Scales Competitors Spinning Integrating Processing Weaving Packing Textiles

Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha

“One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.”

Bigs Company Security Industry Scales Firm Characteristics Contracts Defence Disadvantages

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.”

Bigs Reality Eye Numbers Color Wall Limits Shadow Notes Scales Endless Furniture Lipstick True Colors

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.”

Matter Would Be Subjects Fundamentals Lists Scales Avoiding Make Out

Author:Karl Lehmann

“There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.”

Enough Law Silly Scales Climbs Barriers Artificial Regulation Hurdle

Author:Gloria Allred

“If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.”

Ifs Heart Soul Wife Husband Judgment Weight Scales Measurement Unfaithful

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

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