Giants Quotes - Page 2

• I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

  Michael Landon

  Disappointment, Expectations

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

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Weak Man, Revival In America

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• We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Classic, Shoulders, Dwarfs

  Quoted in John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon (1159) See Robert Burton 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1

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• The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Anger, Achievement, Society

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

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• The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Team, Enemy

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Looks, Literature, Praying

  "Don Quixote".

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• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  Warren Christopher

  Taken, Thinking, Adaptation

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• Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

  Norman Mailer

  Wise, Literature, Hips

  Dissent Summer 1957, p. 281

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• My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

  Aisha Tyler

  School, Kids, Clothes

  "Aisha Tyler mixes up relationships on 'Friends'". Interview with Lynn Elber, lubbockonline.com. April 23, 2003.

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• Holiness is not just for some select few spiritual giants; it is not just for pious people who sit around all day with nothing to do but “be holy.”... “Everyone who names the name of the Lord” is called to live a holy life!

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Spiritual, Names, People

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.33, Moody Publishers

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• The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Ice, Breathing, Surfing

  Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.59, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

  George Herbert

  Teamwork, Dwarves, Two

  "The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall".

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• I'd like to be a giant enabler.

  Daryl Hannah

  Enablers

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• America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mistake, Usa, America

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• The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

  Martin Scorsese

  Artist, Fit, Used

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Oct 14, 2013

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• Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?" "Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain." "Done that once today," Jason said.

  Rick Riordan

  Blow, Trying, Mountain

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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Cutting, Dwarves, Add

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless (1950). “Business, Big and Small, Built America: Statement Before the Subcommittee on the Study of Monopoly Power of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., April 26-28, 1950”

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Evil, Nuclear Missiles

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• With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

  Ernie Harwell

  Halls, Debut

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• 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.

  Christine Caine

  Way, Moses, Accomplish

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• I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

  Carrie Nation

  Inspirational, Strength, Rocks

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• On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Racism, Fields

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• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

  Honore de Balzac

  Liberty, Libertarian, Bureaucracy

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• The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, Simple, Men

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.264, Ballantine Books

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• There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

  John Bunyan

  Doubt, Despair, Castles

  John Bunyan, William Mason (of Rotherithe.) (1814). “The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream ... In three parts”, p.127

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