Quotes of Magnitude - somelinesforyou

“ Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. ”

- Taisen Deshimaru

“ It wasn't like that when I started out in Omaha (in 1957). I walked into the clubhouse here and I remember the one we had in Omaha was about one-third the size of that. ”

- Bob Gibson

“ I'm not aware of any such incident of this magnitude in 37 years I've been on this job. This is unprecedented. ”

- Wayne Bennett

“ Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ The first step toward greatness is to be honest. ”

- Unknown

“ Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down. ”

- Hitopadesa

“ Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. ”

- Julian Jaynes

“ As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5. ”

- Roseanne

“ We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master. ”

- Jacinto Benavente

“ Being is seeing in the human dimension. ”

- Stephen R. Covey

“ The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. ”

- Nicolaus Copernicus

“ I have a whole museum almost. Baseball and basketball take up the bulk of it, and there's some football and a little bit of hockey. ”

- Penny Marshall

“ To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. ”

- John B. S. Haldane

“ Greatness knows itself. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ”

- Unknown

“ You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. ”

- Adlai Stevenson

“ I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness. ”

- Demi Moore

“ I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way! ”

- Scarlett Johansson

“ France cannot be France without greatness. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ I like America to some extent. ”

- Michael Moore

“ War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. ”

- Marianne Moore

“ Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

- John Updike

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

- Thomas Troward

“ Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. ”

- Ovid

“ Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. ”

- Raymond Holliwell
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