Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.
The LeftRight scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethoven’s last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
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.
I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.
I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. . . . it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale
It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!
Why don't we scale up those things that do work.