Quotes About Magnitude

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

The depth of love is immeasurable, when you scale it, you will only see and experience it to the degree of your scales.

And sometimes I sit there late at night or early in the morning, and I think about the vastness of the ocean, of the sky, of the spaces between us and the nearest stars, about the incredible, unfathomable bigness of it all.

But this … creature was none of those things. He was barely distinguishable from an animal. The young man—singlehandedly—seemed intent on increasing the universe's entropy by an order of magnitude.

I cannot grasp the magnitude of your evil" "Proof that you lack imagination

We are small, but the universe is not.

A nation, from internal resources alone, carrying on for over eighteen months the most gigantic war of modern times, ever increasing in its magnitude, yet all this while growing richer and more prosperous!"1

There are some hundred billion (1011) galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars.

the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

From here it also looks a great deal bigger, because space is not really big, it is simply somewhere to be big in. Planets are big, but planets are meant to be big and there is nothing clever about being the right size.

She is a fool in too many ways to number: in affairs of infidelity, if a man strays, it is not the fault of the woman with whom he lays. A worthy heart eschews temptation, despite the magnitude. Clearly my heart is not worthy.

You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be 'just' a wave.

dwarf galaxies, have as few as ten million stars. The biggest, the giants, have been estimated to contain in the region of 100 trillion.

comparing infinities is a treacherous business

there is no comparison between Adam's transgression and the gracious gift that we experience. For the magnitude of the gift far outweighs the crime.s It's true that many died because of one man's transgression, but how much greater will God's grace and his gracious gift of acceptance overflowt to many because of what one Man, Jesus, the Messiah, did for us!

Nevertheless, Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his proportions are so stately, that the same deficiency which in the sculptured Jove were hideous, in him is no blemish at all. Nay, it is an added grandeur. A nose to the whale would have been impertinent.

As we still ascend from shelf to shelf, we find the tenants of the tower serially disposed in order of their magnitude: gannets, black and speckled haglets, jays, sea hens, sperm-whale birds, gulls of all varieties -- thrones, princedoms, powers, dominating one above another in senatorial array; while, sprinkled over all, like an ever-repeated fly in a great piece of broidery, the stormy petrel or Mother Cary's chicken sounds his continual challenge and alarm.

I never had anything against Arsenal, but when I joined Spurs I tried to learn about the club's traditions and I soon found out about the magnitude of the match.

This is not war. This is…what? Errant save us, I have no answer, no way to describe the magnitude of this slaughter. It is mindless. Blasphemous. As if we have forgotten dignity. Theirs, our own. The word itself. No distinction between innocence and guilt, condemned by mere existence.

Years ago, she had not known the magnitude of the loss, for there had been nothing to offer a contrast to misery, hunger and abuse.

It relied on measures of geometrical objects: lengths of lines, areas of squares, volumes of cubes. All of these they called magnitudes. They thought of them as distinct from numbers and superior to them. This, I believe, is why Archimedes held pi at arm's length. He didn't know what to make of it. It was a strange, transcendent creature, more exotic than any number.