Quotes About Scale

Her face, seen so close, is built of great flats of skin pressed clean of color except for a burnish of yellow that adds to their size mineral weight, the weight of some pure porous stone carted straight from quarries to temples. Words come from this monumental Ruth in the same scale, as massive wheels rolling to the porches of his ears, as mute coins spinning in the light. "You have it pretty good.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

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

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

Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than most of us have ever realized. It may be difficult to describe and is not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process information on a more sophisticated level.

Another armored animal—scalelapping scale with spruce cone regularity until theyform the uninterrupted centraltail row!

Larger than a pea? Oh, it most certainly was.

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

The Research Council concluded, "Most studies estimate the crime-reducing effect of incarceration to be small and some report that the size of the effect diminishes with the scale of incarceration." The

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

There has never in human history been a culture where optimism and cynicism existed side by side on such a scale as this, not even ancient Rome.

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.

We're not aware of the "big picture," any more than a plankton whose universe was a liter of water would be aware of the world's topography and biosphere.

il n'y a pas de grandes ou de petites choses, il n'y a que de grandes ou petites facons de les considérer.

Aztecs had not only failed to repress the eating of enemy dead, they were practicing a state-sponsored form of human sacrifice and cannibalism on a scale never rivaled before or since.

The first qualification for most political offices was wealth on a substantial scale. No one could stand for election without passing a financial test that excluded most citizens;

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

Human beings are midway between the size of a living cell and the size of Earth.

There is nothing to be seen beyond our horizons, but other landscapes and still other horizons, and nothing inside the thing but other smaller things.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height … from the bottom of [a man's] chin to the top of his head is one eighth of his height.