Thanks to their generosity, we will be able to get help and support to the youngest children -- some of whom weren't even born on 911 and who are still too young to comprehend the enormity of their loss.
Quotes about enormity (16 Quotes)
He stood motionless, not turning to the crowd, barely hearing the applause. He stood looking at the judges. There was no triumph in his face, no elation, only the still intensity of contemplating a vision with a bitter wonder that was almost fear. He was seeing the enormity of the smallness of the enemy who was destroying the devastation, past the ruins of great factories, the wrecks of powerful engines, the bodies of invincible men, he had come upon the despoiler, expecting to find a giant and had found a rat eager to scurry for cover at the first sound of a human step. If this is what has beaten us, he thought, the guilt is ours.
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
We take the responsibility of representing United States basketball very seriously. You realize the enormity of who you are representing -- the best players in the world, the best coaches in the world -- and you just want to do it justice.
The enormity of the achievement hasn't sunk in yet.
The Founding Fathers were careful to distinguish representative republicanism from direct democracy. Alexander Hamilton, for example, endorsed the former but condemned the latter. ...the records of the ratification conventions were not verbatim transcriptions. It has been observed, by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny their figure, deformity. When they assembled, the field of debate presented an ungovernable mob, not only incapable of deliberation, but prepared for every enormity.
INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.
I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
I am proud of our efforts, small though they may be, when compared to the enormity of the recovery task ahead. The uniting bond we share is the simple desire to serve those so devastated by the wrath of Hurricane Katrina.
This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
We'll be bringing in a consultant from the outside to help us because we don't have the capacity to do it along with everything else. Given the enormity of the change we're looking for, it's probably better to have someone who is an expert in New Urbanism to help us do it on an expedited basis with community input.
Given the enormity of this national disaster and our collective desire to help the victims of this tragedy, our student-athletes, coaches and staff want to help those in the Gulf region. We are joining the response of the entire University of Connecticut community to assist those who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina.