#scale

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. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity. ↗

— Dakota Cassidy

#hearing #humor #insanity #richter-scale #funny

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

— Jenny Han

#scale #truth #love

Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked. No, but it's very sweet of you. Eragon to Saphira ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#brightscales #dragon-riders #dragons #eragon #fantasy

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#democracy #form #highest #our #scale

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#discovery #doe #facilities #large-scale #led

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#adjust #bathroom #best #his #honesty

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market. ↗

— Vince Cable

#additional #bring #businesses #choice #competition

I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change. ↗

— Jerry Ferrara

#active #addicted #anymore #around #basketball

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#fewest #human #individual #lives #people