Non Comparative Scale Quotes & Sayings

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything. — Sue Townsend

[T]here's a fine line between wild and full-on whack job. — Kimberly McCreight

the comparative framework of sounds or tones that make up a musical scale. So while frequency is a physical property of sound - it's a measurement of the number of cycles per second of a sound wave - pitch refers to what we hear. The chromatic scale, — Bernie Krause

It was strange. When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them. — Ji-li Jiang

To those who live in the narrow circle of human interests and human feelings, there ever exists, unheeded, almost unnoticed, before their very eyes, the most humbling proofs of their own comparative insignificance in the scale of creation, which, in the midst of their admitted mastery over the earth and all it contains, it would be well for them to consider, if they would obtain just views of what they are and what they were intended to be. — James Fenimore Cooper

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

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. — Mary Archer

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. — Robert Louis Stevenson