Magnitude Quotes

• Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

  John Travolta

  Sports, Three, World

  "John Travolta: 'I don't think I would be here without Scientology'". Interview with Carmen Gray, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

  Mother Teresa

  Soulmate, Inspiration, Charity

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• We are each other's magnitude and bond.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Ties, Wedding Toast, Bridal Shower

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.129, Library of America

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• It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

  Thomas Paine

  Taken, Consideration

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• I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

  Dan Quayle

  Earthquakes, Helping, Impressed

  "On the Quayle trail" by William Prochnau, www.washingtonpost.com. January 14, 1990.

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• At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

  Richard Dooling

  Running, Intelligent, Mad

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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 of Watergate.

  Bob Woodward

  Swag, Numbers, Literature

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

  Jock Sturges

  Birthday, Artist, Age

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

  John Updike

  Government, Peculiar, Madness

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 24, 2014

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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 body.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Character, Molecules, Elements

  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). “Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Order, Water, Sugar

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• The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosis spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.

  Geoff Davis

  Numbers, Mind, Use

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• There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean Exploration, Volcanoes, Order

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• As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.

  Jo Bonner

  Recovery, Impact, Storm

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• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Heart, Autumn

  "Sundial of the Seasons". Book by Hal Borland, 1964.

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• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

  Hannah Arendt

  Discovery, Guilt, Doing Nothing

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Events, Littles, Revolution

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.115

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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

  Feelings, Rooms, Back And Forth

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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 on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

  Alexander Haig

  Country, Recovery, Years

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• Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Military, Support, Polish

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

  Aristotle

  Fear, Tragedy, Catharsis

  Poetics ch. 6, 1449b

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• The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Science, Earthquakes, Names

  "Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1" (p. 6), 1980.

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Intensity, Intellect

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• It is an awesome thing to comprehend that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

  Vanna Bonta

  Dream, Awesome Things, Imagine

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• The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, its no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

  Michael Vick

  Hurt, Animal, Night

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