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Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales. — Becky Chambers

A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done - trying to even the scales before they cross the river. — Conn Iggulden

Daughter of wheat and grain, Betrothed to soil and stain, Your lifeblood drips, The scales tip, But will it be in vain? — Laura Thalassa

He'd probably spent as much time practicing scales as he had jacking off. — Tara Kelly

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble

The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes. — Lord Randolph Churchill

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10. — Ed Diener

Once you get past the scales and the blindfold, Justice is a woman with a sword. — Brian K. Vaughan

know better than anyone that love isn't always perfectly balanced - it doesn't break even, doesn't weigh the scales equally on both sides. — Julie Johnson

Some dream in color. We dream in scale. — Beth Comstock

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

Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours. — Richard Powers

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. — Andre Maurois

Live snakes?' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-'
'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up. — Scott Lynch

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales. — Benoit Mandelbrot

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place. — Neil Shubin

The fashion accessories of Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice, express the logic succinctly: (1) scales; (2) blindfold; (3) sword. — Steven Pinker

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will. — David Christian

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. — Blake Judd

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant. — Roald Amundsen

In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it — Beth Comstock

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish. — Marianne Moore

I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale. — Benjamin Stone

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality. — Friedrich Schiller

Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction. — George Soros

Scales are the grammar of music. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. — Aldous Huxley

We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale. — Steve Ells

Karma and manifestation work 24/7 to balance the scales. Do justice, in due time. — T.F. Hodge

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales. — Lindsey Buckingham

People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice. — George Eliot

The scales of equilibrium can be found in wilderness/ — Terry Tempest Williams

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine. — Max Black

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales. — Richard Briers

Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, — Steven Johnson

Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way. — Jennifer Niven

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale. — Simone Weil

Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale. — Nancy Lancaster

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them. — George Eliot

...I gotta burn these scales... sigh* — Hiroko Sakai

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. — Mahatma Gandhi

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! — Lucy Larcom

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat. — Michael David Lukas

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

For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs. — Tommy Bolin

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust. — James Russell Lowell

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

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. — Kirk Hammett

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you. — Brian Chesky

What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? — Herman Melville

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. — Rita Dove

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale, — Boris Johnson

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs. — Dave Navarro

And floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything. — Marshall Fritz

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. — Jane Hirshfield

I could see the water purling away from keeled scales that ran in a crest down the sinuous neck. — Diana Gabaldon

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ... — Julian Bream

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales. — John Stott

I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house. — Kim Kardashian

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them. — Robert Reed

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. — Dick Dale

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. — Aesop

I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales. — April Mae Monterrosa

There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales. — Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty. — N.D. Wilson

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire. — Ambrose Bierce

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. — Harry Partch

Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. — Paul Kurtz

Scales are not allowed in my house. — Prince Fielder

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing. — Christopher Nolan

That's put a strain on his left-hand knee. — John Scales

The woman would be beautiful if she wasn't so deceitful, but snakes ofte3n had the most beautiful design on their scales. — Kristin Miller

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales. — Conor Maynard

I do not see scales as abstract. — James Galway

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus

Rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano. — Dorothy Cannell

So you see, once a person drops the scales of prejudiced certainty and doubts appear, there is no telling how far a heart can open. — Louise Erdrich

Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails — Louis MacNeice

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Life and the world were perhaps ugly, but at the limits of the micro and macro scales, everything was harmonious and beautiful. The — Liu Cixin

I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun. — Kenny G

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold. — Anne Michaels

Ignoring the fact it is 99% NSFW and full of furry pics.. It is very rare that a site scales perfectly and I like the way it presents the pictures. — Lydia M. Child

It is nayat one fraigen, lita. It has naya honed scales to rip yon wide. — Fawn Bonning

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them. — Maxine Hong Kingston

She grinned. Lifted herself up on her elbow so she could look down at him, and said, "Now that you've recovered, ready to go again? — Dale Mayer

We feel the most balance when we're not dividing ourselves on other people's scales. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Sometimes, the scales of justice find a level of their own, without our help ... And sometimes, in seeking justice, we don't always serve it. — Susanna Kearsley

We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell! — Henrik Ibsen

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve. — George Strait

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves. — Sue Tompkins

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes. — James Galway

Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid. — Haruki Murakami