Magnitude Quotes

• We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be.

  

  Ricardo Rossello
  • History
  • Magnitude
  • Hurricanes

• The growth rate of Napster blew away any previous web site growth rate, approaching an order of magnitude.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Growth
  • Rate
  • Website

• Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Excuse
  • Intentions
  • Maladministration

• Outside the United States there are hundreds of millions of cases of mosquito-borne diseases. It's just huge in terms of the magnitude.

  

  Dawn Wells
  • United States
  • Outside
  • Terms

• It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Great
  • Question
  • Reflection

• Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Intellect
  • Intensity
  • Magnitude

• Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Party
  • Conflict
  • Magnitude

• The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

  

  Aristotle
  • Way
  • Line
  • Plane

• War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • War
  • Terrible
  • Magnitude

• This is a small, limited experience, but it has enough follow-up to show us that tissue engineering is a viable tool that will allow us to tackle problems of similar magnitude.

  

  Anthony Atala
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Small

• All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Boundaries
  • Appearances
  • Magnitude

• I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Damage
  • Calamity
  • Tsunami

• I got us off to a bad start from the beginning of the game. The magnitude of the game and being in so many games like that, for me to be the one to act like I had never been in a game like that is unacceptable. I fully take responsibility for this one.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Bad
  • Game
  • Responsibility

• The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sacrifice
  • Requires
  • Magnitude

• There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Space
  • Able
  • Records

• We say to the Creator of all this magnitude and majesty, ‘Well, I’m not sure You are worth it…. You see, I really like my car, or my little sin habit, or my money, and I’m really not sure I want to give them up, even if it means I get You.’

  

  Francis Chan
  • Car
  • Habit
  • Sin

• We have also now conceded that AJ will only fight once this year, before it was all about getting that fight (Pulev) in early August to make sure we could fight in December. Because of the preparation needed and the magnitude of his shows, AJ will only box once in 2020.

  

  Eddie Hearn
  • Year
  • Preparation
  • Getting

• Not since Reggie White have the Packers had a pass rusher of this magnitude.

  

  Warren Sapp
  • White
  • Magnitude
  • Packers

• 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
  • Rooms
  • Magnitude
  • Reprisal

• To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Anything
  • Do
  • Magnitude

• He was an oddity of some magnitude.

  

  Charles Willeford
  • Magnitude
  • Oddity

• Sometimes people honestly don't realize the magnitude of their words and have no idea that boundaries have been crossed.

  

  Judy Smith
  • Words
  • Boundaries
  • Magnitude

• One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Difficult
  • Firsts
  • Steps

• I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.

  

  Mickalene Thomas
  • People
  • Magnitude

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