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Quotes About Magnitude

Or is there something else you'd rather have?" she asked, her voice a little too gentle. He felt a great dilation in his chest. "Oh, no!" he exclaimed with passion. "Oh, no!" "Very well then, let's see what we can do about it," she said, more than reassured; and suddenly she suspected in something like its full magnitude the long, careless denial, and the importance of the cap to the child.
~ James Agee
It is only when we see just how wonderful and amazing man is that we can appreciate the magnitude of the Fall and the greatness of redemption.
~ Unknown
It is almost impossible to exaggerate its significance.
~ John Guy
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Hey, size works against excellence.
~ Bill Gates
I didn't think they came any bigger than Hudson who was close to this size but not quite as big.
~ Mandy M. Roth
Up close, the Granite Reef Aqueduct seems almost too huge to be real. Where will all the water come from? From the air, however, the aqueduct and the river it diverts are reduced to insignificance by the landscape through which they flow
~ Marc Reisner
We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the run itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those starts of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the sun, until the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament where they may be seen evening or morning? The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
~ John Milton
It frightens him to think of her this way. It makes her seem, in terms of love, so vast.
~ John Updike
An integer means any whole number positive or negative including zero.
~ John Weiss
The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.
~ William Butler Yeats
they stand like giants immersed in Time.
~ Marcel Proust
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
~ Marianne Moore
Larger than a pea? Oh, it most certainly was.
~ Marie Brennan
Exist? în univers o anumit? cantitate de via?? ?i o anumit? cantitate de moarte, ?i el – universul – procedeaz? ca un contabil care lucreaz? en gros, lui s?-i ias? mereu suma mare, totalul.
~ Unknown
But the depth of the crisis is also suggested by the multitude of reforming voices, societies, and movements that arose within the Catholic Church during the same period that Protestants began to move away from the church. Such movements are the concern of our next chapter, but it is important to note them now in order to indicate the magnitude of crisis brought about by the failure of Catholic leadership to expend as much energy in the care of souls as in the pursuit of power.
~ Unknown
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great but because nothing is too small for Him either.
~ Mark Batterson
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is also great because nothing is too small.
~ Mark Batterson
If God would cry, you can´t compare it to a tsunami.
~ Alin Sav
il n'y a pas de grandes ou de petites choses, il n'y a que de grandes ou petites facons de les considérer.
~ Unknown
Regardez le ciel. Pensez au cosmos. Cherchez la grandeur à chaque occasion, afin de voir votre propre petitesse.
~ Matt Haig
The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.
~ Max Planck
Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan