Quotes
Quotes about Giants
I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
There were giants in the earth in those days.
I have not seen as far as others because giants were standing on
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.
This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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.
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. â¢Otto Von Bismarck Peace with a club in hand is war. â¢Portuguese Proverb The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. â¢Bernard Mannes Baruch The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. â¢Chinese Proverb 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. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown, Have stirred up many zealous souls To fight against imaginary giants.
