Magnitude Quotes

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.

The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

Not since Reggie White have the Packers had a pass rusher of this magnitude.

Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.

Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

No one is strong enough  -  given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.

When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

I just want you to be motivated by the magnitude of the opportunity.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.

Make your life a tribute equal to the magnitude of the gift of life.

A mind is not weighed by its magnitude, but by the dimensions of its thoughts.

We are each other's harvest