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Scales Quotes - Page 3

That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.

Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.424, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

Interview in New York produced by Publishing Point group, September 29, 2010.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

"Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.

Jenny Han (2012). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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

Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.171, Macmillan

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Bertrand Russell (1944). “Pamphlets: The value of free thought; Ideas that have harmed mankind; Ideas that have helped mankind; The faith of a rationalist”

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.117

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.33

The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

"Wealthiest 1% will soon own more than rest of us combined, Oxfam says" by Faith Karimi, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2015.

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

Thorstein Veblen (2016). “BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…”, p.69, e-artnow