Goliath Quotes - Page 2

• Up against Goliath, to bring butter home.
  I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.

  Ka

  Rap, Home, Hip Hop

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• The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

  John Marsden

  Hero, People, Stories

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In this very moment I'm king In this very moment I slayed Goliath with a sling

  Nicki Minaj

  Kings, Bragging, Moments

  Song: Moment For Life, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• People fear what they do not understand.

  Bruce Lee

  People, Gargoyles

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• Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Dream, Country, Bullying

  Source: globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com

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• Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."

  Warren G. Bennis

  Winning, Ideas, Enemy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Names, Temptation, Giants

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• The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.

  Matt Cullen

  Fun, Reading, Kids

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

  Michael Lewis

  Bible, Winning, Roots

  "Moneyball". Book by Michael Lewis, June 17, 2003.

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• The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.

  Terry Butcher

  Soccer, Football, Cups

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• Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Crush, Strong, Rights

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Names are not always what they seem.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Labyrinth, Criminal Mind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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• It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Real, Justice, Giants

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• I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?

  Emily Dickinson

  Hands, World, Pebbles

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.805, Delphi Classics

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• When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Want, Matter

  Malcolm Gladwell (2013). “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the story of David and Goliath and David's friend, the Stealth Bomber.

  Tina Fey

  Victory, Rebel, Experts

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• He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

  Scott Westerfeld

  War, Men, Thinking

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book "David and Goliath," writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Mother, Running, Home

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• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  Nancy Lublin

  Mean, Underdog, Cartoon

  "On Underdogs" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2009.

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• After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Heart, Winning, Roots

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• The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.

  Jasper Fforde

  Corporations, Furnishings, Altruism

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation

  John Helm

  Soccer, Football, Spurs

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• This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!

  Scott Westerfeld

  Together, Earth, Share

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Men, Elephants

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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