On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions, then the next question is okay, what are we going to do about it?
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
REASON, v. i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.
I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.
For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.
I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
scales are the grammar of music.
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
. . . We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
But it seems Ive got this set of scales inside me that I never used to have, or at least I wasnt aware of, and I cant shake the feeling that if I dont try to keep them balanced, Ill lose something I wont be able to get back.
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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.
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.