Quotes About Magnitude

The issues that we're having with water are worse and the magnitude is bigger than anything I imagined possible.

It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I feel like I've experienced this,' or 'I am experiencing this,' or 'I might start to experience it soon.'

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

A menudo creemos que las cosas son de por sí grandes o de por sí pequeñas, y no nos damos cuenta de que lo que llamamos tamaño no es sino una relación entre las cosas.

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

Gewahren wir denn wirklich den hundertsten Teil von all dem, was es gibt? Sehen Sie, der Wind, die größte Naturkraft, die Menschen umwirft, Häuser vom Boden fegt, Bäume entwurzelt, das Meer in Wasserbergen aufwühlt, Klippen und Felsen zermalmt und die mächtigsten Schiffe in die Brandung hinaus wirft, der Wind, der tötet, pfeift, stöhnt, brüllt - haben Sie den schon gesehen und können Sie ihn sehen? Und trotzdem ist er doch da.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a giant mistake.

How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

If a man carry his sense of proportion far enough, lo! he is back at the point from which he started. He knows that eternity, as conceived by him, is but an instant in eternity, and infinity but a speck in infinity.

It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

Absolute value: the distance that a given number is from zero on a number line . . . always a positive

There are more than three hundred trillion cells in the human body. Counting ten cells per second, it would take more than a million years to count them all.

When I signed for Real Madrid, I knew it was a big club, but only when you're inside do you realise the magnitude of this team.

When I joined I was young and silly and made some very stupid decisions, being oblivious to the magnitude of the consequences. I did go a little crazy after Musafir. There was plenty of money and adulation and I would see guys going crazy for me. The songs were a big hit and it was like living the life one only dreams of.

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

But we all have some largeness in us, don't we, Ana?

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.

Everything I do is intended to be big.

The Internet is such... it's so not real. But it's big and it feels big when you're on it.

His personal wealth was larger than the gross domestic product of Hungary; larger than even the market capitalization of General Motors.

this is not only the largest river in the world, it's many times larger than the next biggest river. it blows all other rivers away.

In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all.