Giants Quotes

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.

I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads

David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

I think any man over 250 pounds rollerblading is instant hilarity. There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

Y'all should come to Cowboys Stadium and watch us beat the Giants' asses.

The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something.

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

The giant in front of you is never bigger than the God who lives in you.

You're alive!" Percy said to the others. "The giants said you were captured. What happened?" Leo shrugged. "Oh, just another brilliant plan by Leo Valdez. You'd be amazed what you can do with an Archimedes sphere, a girl who can sense stuff underground, and a weasel." "I was the weasel," Frank said glumly.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

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The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing

Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?

Did you ever notice that America is shaped like one big, giant toilet bowl?

Learn Gracie Jiu-Jitsu so that when a giant walks by, you don't think to yourself 'oh no,' you think to yourself 'how interesting!

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants