#scale

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#every #every time #expect #full-scale #government

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#different types #i #indian #jazz #learnt

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#air #air conditioning #almost #also #appeared

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#any #big #doing #dreams #had

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#emotion #holy #holy spirit #i #just

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#attack #disaster #entire #equipped #government

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#camp #certain #certain degree #changes #civil

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communist #either #i #indeed #legal

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#bigger #connected #controlling #creatively #feel