Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.
We are not significant on the cosmic scale.
Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.
For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
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.
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.
I didn't want to lose the human scale.
I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.
Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.
Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.