Giants Quotes - Page 15

• Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ordinary, Body, Fleas

  'Imaginary Conversations' (1824) 'Southey and Porson'

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• Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Eye, Faults, Youth

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.62

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• I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.

  Hank Aaron

  Names, Play, Brave

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• To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.

  C. Wright Mills

  War, Moving, Party

  "The New Men of Power". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1948.

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• The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Taken, Government

  "The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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• I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Thinking, Wings, Ideas

  Source: gawker.com

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• I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.

  Anne Lamott

  Self Esteem, Humility, Ego

  "Anne Lamott on 'Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers'". Interview with Lois Alter Mark, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• Remember the importance of phrases... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.

  Sara Genn

  Creating, Perfect, Pressure

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• You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.

  John French Sloan

  Smart, Fall, Sleep

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• Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

  Robin Sharma

  Destiny, Thinking, Years

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.241, Jaico Publishing House

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• 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!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Clouds, Feet, Tall

  "Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism". Book by Carver Mead, 2002.

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• According to geologists, about 100 million years from now, Asia and the Americas will smash together to form one giant supercontinent. The good news: Maybe all those jobs that went over there will finally come back.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Years, Together

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• Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Failure, Character, Race

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.428, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.17, FV Éditions

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• Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Years, Psychology, Brain

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• It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul's purest desire, its dream for your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Giving, Soul

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles”, p.146, Random House

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• We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

  Tennessee Williams

  Shadow, Three, Born

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.17, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• If you will observe, it doesn't take
  A man of giant mould to make
  A giant shadow on the wall;
  And he who in our daily sight
  Seems but a figure mean and small,
  Outlined in Fame's illusive light,
  May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
  Across the canvas of his time.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Wall, Mean, Men

  "Authors' Night". Poem by John Townsend Trowbridge,

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• There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Relics, Superstitious

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Second foundation”, Del Rey

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• 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.

  Anne Lamott

  Secret, Trying, Pandas

  Anne Lamott (1980). “Hard Laughter: 2”, Viking Adult

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• Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.

  Hugh Walpole

  Running, Country, Book

  Hugh Walpole (1985). “The Herries Chronicles”

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Winning, Way

  "Collected Writings". Book by Omar Bradley Volume 1, 1967.

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• Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Rights, Iron

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.261, 谷月社

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• Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Airports, Government, Cities

  "Computer crime" by Gerald McKnight, (p. 203), 1973.

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• I was being chased by a giant crab. That's not funny.

  Dane Cook

  Laughing, Crabs, Audience

  "Harmful If Swallowed", 2003.

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