Quotes by Giants Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy. Gilbert K. Chesterton machines giants men There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest. Hans Christian Andersen splinters giants tree What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to. Heinz Pagels giants trying art I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected. Henry Cavill these-days giants thinking Both of you [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] are giants, dare I say nephilim [giants; see Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33], in your world. Hershel Shanks nephilim giants numbers Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the range of the infinitely small, nor at that of the infinitely large, but we might well live at the range of the infinitely complex. We live at the range of the most caring; we ourselves might embody the most capacity for caring. Holmes Rolston III giants caring humanity Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender. Homer blenders giants sleep Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. Honore de Balzac libertarian giants liberty For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. Henry Rollins giants directors years The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. Friedrich Nietzsche vanity giants vulnerable All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them. Hudson Taylor weak-man giants men Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories". Iain Banks fairy-stories giants book Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds. Honore de Balzac journalism giants hatred I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua. Ira Glass chihuahua giants thinking So we have giant super-smart vipers who slithered in here, killed our people, opened the vault, stole something from it, and slithered out, undetected?” “Appears so.” “Okay. Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t something dangerous. Ilona Andrews smart giants people I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton shoulders giants math If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient . Frederick Lenz giants yoga attention Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise. Ilona Andrews outsiders giants nice So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun. J. G. Ballard bats giants rain 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 relics giants past «345678910111213»
