Quotes About Magnitude

For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles.

God's genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

If', it's a little word, but casts an awfully big shadow.

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power.

larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

Even if this thing takes down one percent of the global population—that's seventy million people.

Earth is home to more than twelve thousand species of ants. If you weighed all the ants and all the humans, the ants would weigh more.

There was pain and then there was pain. Different magnitudes you could stand or not stand. Wetting your beak and wetting your beak.

When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude.

This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love. When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude. A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Jesus, could he take up any more space?

Everything felt both huge and small, as if the plane were hanging from a string held by the hands of gods.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

C'est quand le soleil s'éclipse qu'on en voit la grandeur

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.