Quotes About Magnified

I got into a fight in my 10th-grade year, and it was on ESPN. It was a mistake, and you learn from it. Starting from the seventh grade, everything's been magnified like that. It's kind of like you have no childhood.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

I think of how emotions seem so magnified when you're a child. Joy is more all-encompassing, disappointments more crushing, hope more palpable.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

What it means, though, is that the law of the few is not one, but two hypotheses that have been mashed together: first that some people are more influential than others; and second, that the influence of these people is greatly magnified by some contagion process that generates social epidemics.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.

Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

me in these things is incalculable. I love his words, "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."56 But I also love to say it my way: God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

But when we commend Christ as the one who satisfies our soul forever—even when there is no health, wealth, and prosperity—then Christ is magnified as more precious than all those gifts.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?"32 "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."33

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

It's what we wanted: contact with another civilization. We have it, this contact! Our own monstrous ugliness, our own buffoonery and shame, magnified as if it was under a microscope!

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

Conversion turns the bias of the WILL both as to means and end. The intentions of the will are altered. Now the man has new ends and designs. He now intends God above all, and desires and designs nothing in all the world, so much as that Christ may be magnified in him. He counts himself more happy in this than in all that the earth could yield, that he may be serviceable to Christ, and bring Him glory. This is the mark he aims at, that the name of Jesus may be great in the world.

new method of taxing people with their faults has not only retained but magnified its own faults. It tells only one side of the story, and a far from disinterested one. Checking it out is difficult, but passing it on is easy.

Feeding off each other, magnified by the knowledge that the laughter was so inappropriate, their mirth was uncontrollable.

It occurred to me that if both genes and environment could produce similar dysfunctional symptoms, the effect of a stressful environment on a person already genetically sensitive to stress would probably be magnified.