Best Magnitude Thoughts
228 Magnitude quotes by 189 unique authors
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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…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them…
— Georges Duhamel
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We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force…
— Alexander Haig
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One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
— Thomas Paine
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I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
— Dan Quayle
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
— Moshe Sharett
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The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
— Jock Sturges
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Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
— John Travolta
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
— John Updike
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't…
— Elie Wiesel
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I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep…
— Bob Woodward
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
— Elie Wiesel
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Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.…
— James E. Faust
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The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at…
— Jeanne Birdsall
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You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver…
— Lois Lowry
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We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a…
— Thomas Hardy
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Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an…
— Jon Krakauer
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I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that…
— Juliet Marillier
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The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be…
— Noam Chomsky
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