Giants Quotes - Page 10

• I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Passion, Italian, Pasta

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• The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

  Virginia Woolf

  Twilight, Moving, Knitting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.56, Broadview Press

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• It's one giant Bowflex commercial covered in booze vomit.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Booze, Covered

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• I am a giant squid of anger.

  John Green

  Hipster, Squids, Giant Squid

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• The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth.

  Prince Charles

  Life, People, Support

  Prince Charles' Speech to a WWF gala dinner at Hampton Court Palace on the Prince's Rainforests Project, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2007.

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• The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace.

  James E. Faust

  Light, Self, Tree

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

  Tim Tharp

  Games, Training, Next

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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• God can be seen
  Even by the poorest fool,
  But not by the self-styled,
  God-arguing
  Intellectual giants.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Intellectual, Mind

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• You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only because we stand on their shoulders. But this [Nobel Prize Presentation] is an occasion on which I should prefer to remember, not the giants upon whose shoulders we stood, but the friends with whom we stood arm in arm ... colleagues in so much of my work.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Arms, Today

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• The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

  Walt Whitman

  Military, Gun, Artillery

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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• The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Stars, Science, Views

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• If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

  Stephen Covey

  Moving, Mean, Victory

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• I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.

  Julie Andrews

  Past, Judging, People

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• The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Government, Rivers, Human Potential

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2017

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Wall, Powerful

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

  Bret Hart

  Wwe, America, Toilets

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

  Jerry Jones

  Cowboy, Watches, Ass

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• We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Science, Sight, Progress

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• We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Years, Europe

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

  Newton Lee

  War, Hero, Small Steps

  Newton Lee (2013). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.208, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The Avengers films, ideally, in the grand plan are always big, giant linchpins. It’s like as it was in publishing, when each of the characters would go on their own adventures and then occasionally team up for a big, 12-issue mega-event. Then they would go back into their own comics, and be changed from whatever that event was. I envision the same thing occurring after this movie, because the Avengers roster is altered by the finale of this film.

  Kevin Feige

  Team, Adventure, Character

  "Avengers 3 Team Will Be Altered by Age of Ultron Ending" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 27, 2014.

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• See your life as a giant adventure. Keep pushing the envelope, and remember that every dream starts off small.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Adventure, Envelopes

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 06, 2014

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• Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by a human hand. Somehow those pylons had been strung with wire, and those towers raised, and roofs tiled. There had been food and drink for millions of mouths. I don't cry easy, but my vision blurred as I stared on the ruins of what we had been, and I watched the small band of men in rags move toward it to pick at it like birds on the carcass of some giant.

  Marcel Theroux

  Moving, Men, Hands

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• My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.

  Veronica Webb

  Dark, Two, Greek Yogurt

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• I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

  Ian Mcewan

  Beautiful, Daughter, Believe

  "Some Notes on the Novella". www.newyorker.com. October 29, 2012.

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