Top 100 Quotes About Scope
#1. I'm sure you remember Lieutenant Tarbic."
"I do. I must say he looked better through my rifle scope.
E.J. Fisch
#2. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
William E. Gladstone
#3. My love for you reaches beyond the borders of continents,
so vast in scope that I would cross oceans to be with you.
Yes, but does that same love penetrate so deep
as to dare thee to sink to the oceans' depths to find me?"
-from "My Aquarius
Richelle E. Goodrich
#4. But it was ever thus. That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be - our
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#5. In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.
Mo Udall
#6. People as a whole see a limited scope of the world, chained to their notions, often misguided notions, of what truth is. Seeking something more, I would argue, is the very act of unchaining oneself from the cave wall.
Elizabeth Finn
#7. There is more than duplicity in scope-less-ness. There is the fraudulent manifest of falsehood as generosity.
Dew Platt
#8. The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
Edward Snowden
#9. Can you fall in love through a rifle scope?
Peter Heller
#10. The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.
Edmund Burke
#11. Mathews, 1967; Schlagal, 2002; Schlagal, 2007; Smith, 2002).
Many phonics, spelling, and vocabulary programs are characterized by explicit skill
instruction, a systematic scope and sequence, and repeated practice.
Donald R. Bear
#12. Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.
Pirjo Honkasalo
#13. It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.
Holly Near
#14. The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything ... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.
Hans Haacke
#15. I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.
Dennis Brown
#16. People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.
Jon Favreau
#17. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; and only backward pulls Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. How much I could do if I only tried. * (1803-1873) English dramatist, novelist, and politician.
Napoleon Hill
#18. The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.
Edward M. Lerner
#19. Let's scope the place out," he suggested, heading around the side of the building, "and be careful in the bushes." "Why?" Amy asked. "This is South Africa, dude," Dan replied. "Where cobras come from. And not the hot ones, like Ian.
Peter Lerangis
#20. In the 1970s and early '80s, Shanghai was quiet, cautious, a ghost of a once-great city - and yet physically, little was changed from its glittering heyday. When visiting, I enjoyed reading books on local history and used my time off to scope out the former haunts of gangsters and jazzmen.
Nicole Mones
#21. As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
Don DeLillo
#22. The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
Mitch McConnell
#23. A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#24. We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or give our anguish scope.
Something was dead within each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
Oscar Wilde
#25. Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Rex Stout
#26. There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
R.C. Sproul
#27. The drive ... is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope ...
Larry McDonald
#28. Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow". That's because they hate me and made me sleep in the linen closet subsisting only on bath salts and Scope).
Sloane Crosley
#29. I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was 'The Avengers.' The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.
Chris Pine
#30. For I am bound with fleshly bands,
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
And catch at hope.
Christina Rossetti
#31. You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
W. Somerset Maugham
#32. Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.
Bernard Darwin
#33. Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.
Mary Rodgers
#34. We look at globalization and terrorism as phenomena that are defined in limited time and scope, we tend to arrive at conclusions that are as ephemeral as the newspapers.
Anonymous
#35. Just as some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever eager of what lies beyond the scope of a single page, so you never cease to intrigue me, leaving me in constant yearning of all that resides within you.
Katie Douglas
#36. I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
Gail Collins
#37. Past age fifty-five, I experienced the advancement of exquisite fabric choices, paint distinctions that were celestial in scope, yet so many other man-made objects, such as people, became drab, redundant and boring.
Carol A. Elliott
#38. They didn't agree on everything. They didn't share all the same opinions. In fact, there was enormous scope for disagreement, argument, even quarrels. But where it mattered - where the wellsprings of their personalities rose and gave meaning to their lives - they were the same.
David Weber
#39. Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison
#40. Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Robert H. Schuller
#41. In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#42. Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.
Colum McCann
#43. In geometry Anne met her Waterloo. "It's perfectly awful stuff, Marilla," she groaned. "I'm sure I'll never be able to make heads or tail of it. There is not scope for imagination in it at all.
L.M. Montgomery
#44. I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
Martin Seligman
#45. Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say ... 'It would have been better if ... ' or 'had it been ... ' and this is all about evolving.
Abhishek Bachchan
#46. Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
Friedrich Schiller
#47. The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
Joel Silver
#48. To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
Jim Valvano
#49. I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.
Rufus Wainwright
#50. A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
Thomas Watson
#51. I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
Sheena Easton
#52. Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.
Felix Frankfurter
#53. Hawthorne ends the story this way: 'He failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living once for all in eternity, to find the perfect future in the present.
William Alexander
#54. Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team.
Sarah Sutton
#55. I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.
Jim Lehrer
#56. When we kill a word, it's akin to killing off the dodo bird. Nothing can replace it, and it's impossible to know the scope of the loss." The
Beth Cato
#57. I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it's just the list is too long to mention just one and it's not fair to the others.
Ahmed H. Zewail
#58. A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
Barack Obama
#59. Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.
Kent Beck
#60. Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.
Dagobert D. Runes
#62. If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn't just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on.
Justin Rosenstein
#63. Since Cervantes's magnificent Knight's quest has cosmological scope and reverberation, no object seems beyond reach.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#64. Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
Iain Duncan Smith
#65. I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film ...
Guillermo Del Toro
#66. Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where we'd end.
S.A. McAuley
#67. By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#68. As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
Alberto Manguel
#69. The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.
John Shirley
#70. Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
Jorge Luis Borges
#71. It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America, but it pictures the people and the customs and the drama of upstate New York in the days preceding and following the Civil War with a simplicity that, to my mind, is true art.
Clyde Brion Davis
#72. The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of experience and habit-but by the scope and accuracy of the individual laws to the discovery of which it eventually leads.
Max Planck
#73. Without bravery, we will never be able to realize the vaulting scope of our own capacities. Without bravery, we will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, our lives will remain small - far smaller than we probably want our lives to be.
Jack Gilbert
#74. Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Herbert Read
#75. Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
Leon Trotsky
#76. I wanted to present a sweep and scope of larger events, and a grander backdrop, but most important was to set against that a very singular, real and modest people struggling with every day and human struggles.
Chang-rae Lee
#77. If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.
Martin Rees
#78. A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.
Craig Finn
#79. Make in India! By this, we mean we want to give low cost manufacturing, ease of business, skilled manpower. India is a land of huge possibilities & scope.
Narendra Modi
#80. Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
Maria Semple
#81. In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
Manmohan Singh
#83. As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
Henry Rollins
#84. I'm always happy when I learn more about communication in the wide free scope of that word. So next is a move, getting the film made and working on more music everyday which is equally large in my being as filmmaking.
Giuseppe Andrews
#85. In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago,
Masahiro Sakurai
#86. 'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.
George R R Martin
#87. It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#88. The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein ... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
Frederick Pollock
#89. We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.
Barack Obama
#90. The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose.
Johnathan Jena
#91. Comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan, a fundamental point occasionally forgotten in practice.
Edward R. Tufte
#92. The Republican name used to be synonymous with limiting the size and scope of government, and we need to re-establish that reputation. We must work to eliminate government waste, make certain taxpayer dollars go to meaningful programs, and leave resources directly with the people.
Tim Walberg
#93. Flanking strategies in sales situations actually mean one of five things: (1) changing the pain, (2) changing the power, (3) changing the process, (4) linking solutions or products, or (5) expanding scope.
Rick Page
#95. Your imagination has an impressive reach."
"Or my boredom an impressive scope.
Julie Anne Long
#96. When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front. But soon events assumed such gigantic and far-reaching scope as to demand larger canvasses.
Sergei Prokofiev
#97. Every day, we grasped the true scope of the Apocalypse. And what we saw convinced us that human civilization had gone to hell.
Manel Loureiro
#98. Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.
Annalee Newitz
#99. Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#100. You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?
A.E. Samaan
