Quotes with gigantic

  • Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
  • He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
  • Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults -a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

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  • Camille Paglia Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Karl Marx Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ben Stein Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.
    Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation. Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bono God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults -a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Adam C. Engst The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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  • Marlene Dietrich There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Cynthia Heimel When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
    Cynthia Heimel
    American feminist and writer (1947 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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