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“It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.”

“Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community, finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstances is the federal government to become involved in public welfare. The Founders felt it would corrupt the government and also the poor. No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.”

Source: The Making of America

“I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.”

Cutting Eating Mirrors Good Things Drinking Phones Scales Stable Sisterhood Phone Calls Wintergirls Cutting Myself

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”

Men Sex Women Sleep Moral Worry Wall Roots Scales Consideration There Is No God Fortresses Cholera One Hundred Years Of Solitude Great Sex

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.”

Ifs Want Stars Blood Cold Warm Scales Feathers Lungs

Book:Skin Divers

Source: Skin Divers

“"Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the 'imbecilic question' scale of one to ten. "Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?" "Any nausea? Headache?" "Yep. And it's standing here talking to me."”

Feels Said Faces Talking Fine Ten Standing Scales Hello Max Headache Nausea

Author:James Patterson

“I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.”

Children Stills Real Moments Earth Behinds Risk Danger Creatures Members Errors Species Leaving Scales Fragile Layers Fossils Juvenile

Book:Fragile Species

Source: Fragile Species

“Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.”

Pain Joy Planets Balance Equal Weight Scales

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Well, I would turn into a dragon and fly you home, but something tells me you would protest. (Sebastian) No doubt. I imagine the scales would also chafe my skin. (Channon) True. Not to mention, I once learned the hard way that they really do call the military out on you. You know, fighter jets are hard to dodge when you have a forty-foot wingspan. (Sebastian)”

Knows Way Wells Hard Home Turns Doubt Imagine Feet Military Skins Scales Fighter No Doubt Forty Protest Dragons Jet Hard Way Dodge Fighter Jets

Book:Dragonswan

Source: Dragonswan

“There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.”

Action Choices Balance Late Scales Ruins Too Late Fragile Cosmic

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.”

Way Heart Book Form Three Asks Clear Scales Rising Carrie Admiration Compliment Manuscripts Infallible Forthcoming

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.”

Trying Matter Hands Simple Situation Cases Four Impossible Mets Succeed Surface Scales Zombie Ladders Coordination

Book:The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

“Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle.”

Mean Made Ends Body Bits Animal Half Fronts Decided Average Tiny Monsters Scales Fats Odd Brown Lions Crocodiles Poodles Hippo

Author:Rick Riordan

“Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.”

Littles Ends Enough Feelings Social Natural Lines Position Stress Scales Cramps Neediness Natural Feelings

Book:Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Source: Tess of the d'Ubervilles

“Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky. -Kira to Mencheres”

Ifs Would Be Ten Surprise Scales Vampire Zero Bubbles Dirt Badass Baths Indulge Indulge In Rubber Surprise Me Kira Bubble Bath Mencheres

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.”

Ideas Scales No Idea

Author:Brooke Burke

“One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.”

Persons Together Hours Strange Balance Lifetime Scales Invisible Changing Your Life Erase Strange Things About Friendship Time Together Time Apart

Author:Michael Robotham

“But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn't know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.”

People Knows World Way Made Home America Found Stars Dark Sleep Deals Millions Proud Periods Fit Profound Woods Scales Wilderness Fortitude Tents Benign Colossal Slender

Author:Bill Bryson

“We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.”

Twenties Scales Going Out

Book:The Boy I Loved Before: A Novel

Source: The Boy I Loved Before: A Novel

“Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me into the dark dream jungle, loping past the hungry vines, crossing the shiny fish-scale river. We left my tears behind in a chiming silver pool. We left my sorrow in the muddy hollows. When I woke up you were next to me, damp and matted, your eyes hazy, trying to remember the way I clung to you, how far down we went. Was the journey too far, Angel Juan? Did we go too far?”

Source: Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop

“Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.”

“She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.”

World Prayer Sea Sky Scales Treasure Endless Ice Balanced Continents Dazzling Sea And Sky

Book:Mrs. Scrooge: A Christmas Poem

Source: Mrs. Scrooge: A Christmas Poem

“But it seems Ive got this set of scales inside me that I never used to have, or at least I wasnt aware of, and I cant shake the feeling that if I dont try to keep them balanced, Ill lose something I wont be able to get back.”

Ifs Trying Feelings Seems Able Used Loses Ill Scales Shakes Get Back Balanced Cant

Book:The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.”

Source: On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle

“Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.”

Children Stills Moments Able Certain Stars Felt Laughing Share Adventure Happenings Lonely Sight Forgotten Come Up Scales Faster Peter Irritating Mermaid Neverland

Book:Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

“Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.”

Scales Consumed

Book:Sum: Tales from the Afterlives

Source: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives

“If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Certain Process Answers Deals Strange Currents Scales Hopeless Melancholy Large Scale

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.”

Trying Years Loss Modern Balance Activity Consequence Aspect Investment Financial Scales Traditional Gambling Massive Sheets Banking Lending Retail Casinos Balance Sheets Investment Banking

Author:Vince Cable

“Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own.”

“"I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not." [...] "I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless." [...] "The coranti shall not go unpunished." [...] "My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility, nobility. In shame, honor. In darkness, light. I will do justice and love mercy."”

“I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.”

Want Felt Steps Scales Versions Lobster Mittens

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to look at it, and the ears wobbled in the air. "Of course they are," she said. Just when she thought Myrnin was getting his mental act together, he'd do something like that. Or maybe he was just messing with her. He liked to do that, and his dark eyes were fixed on her now, assessing just how weirded-out she was. Which, on the grade scale of zero to Myrnin, wasn't much.”

Looks Said Eye Together Courses Found Dark Air Feet Comfortable Ears Scales Staring Fixed Grades Zero Bunnies Claire Slippers Myrnin Assessing Dark Eyes Vamp

Book:Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires

“We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.”

Two Desire Answers Break Loneliness Capable Communicate Scales Bridges Thrown Abyss Break Through

Author:Elie Wiesel

“But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.”

Way Two Body Running Courses Enjoy Hours Five Broken Hot Yeah Size Your Body Miles Scales Miserable Muscles Shock Relax Motivated Jeans Baths Headphones Hot Baths

Author:Christopher McDougall

“It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces”

Universe Force Four Shapes Structure Scales Categories Gravity Large Scale

Author:Stephen Hawking

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”

Knows Life Made Moving Left Mistake Pieces Fingers Chess Disaster Scales Panic Make A Move Chess Pieces Mistakes You've Made

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.”

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his forehead against her hard snout and held her as tightly as he could, her scales sharp against his fingers. Hot tears began to slide down his cheeks. 'Why do you cry?' she asked. 'Because... I'm lucky enough to be bonded with you.' 'Little one.”

Littles Hard Enough Lines Levels Cry Tears Lucky Hot Fingers Scales Cheeks Slides Foreheads Hot Tears

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.”

Ifs Humans Mean Today Used Fantasy Capitalism Scales Used To Be Behave Realism Sober Profitable Apocalyptic Unimaginable Devastation

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.”

Thinking Doe Sometimes Fall Imagine Sky Divine Terrible Battle Angel Ancient Scales Likes Back And Forth Triumphant

Author:Holly Black

“Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.”

Men Needs Children Social Air Clean Slave Breathe Every Man Scales Lowest Spouse Clean Air Disenfranchised

Author:Albert Camus

“Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.”

Knows Wanted Artist Force Space Saws Minutes Design Keys Responsible Wings Scales Butterfly Intricate Telescopes Nature's Beauty Butterfly Wings

Author:Philip Yancey

“Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.”

Scales Ruins Persistent Inventing Large Scale

Book:White Noise

Source: White Noise

“Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of one’s life. True greatness is not always tied to the scope of our tasks, but to the quality of how we carry out our tasks whatever they are. In that attitude, let us give our time, ourselves, and our talents to the things that really matter now, things which will still matter a thousand years from now.”

Giving Years Stills Matter Remember Attitude Quality Talent Greatness Thousand Tasks Scales Our Time Tied Thousand Years Scope True Life True Greatness

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”

Ifs Done Enough Scales Reverie

Book:The Secret History: A Novel

Source: The Secret History: A Novel

“Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.”

Said Care Let Me Don't Care Scales Former I Don't Care Bites Detectives Bite Me

Book:Third Grave Dead Ahead

Source: Third Grave Dead Ahead

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.”

Looks Heart Has Beens Together Remember Joy Greater Sorrow Bed Delight Scales Boards Weeping Inseparable Suspended Sorrowful Joys And Sorrows Sorrow Love

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan”

Scales Awards Hello Creeps Kitties Hello Kitty Freddy Krueger

Author:Kevin Hearne

“Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.”

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.”

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