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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
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
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
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
— Andre Maurois
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
Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.
— Roald Amundsen
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
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
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
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
I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house.
— Kim Kardashian
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
REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
— Ambrose Bierce
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
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.
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
Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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
Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid.
— Haruki Murakami