Dwarfs Quotes

51 quotes by 42 authors

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. — Miguel de Cervantes
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around… — William Carlos Williams
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… — Holmes Rolston III
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history… — J. B. Priestley
In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs. — Susan Sontag
We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our… — John of Salisbury
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and… — Terry Pratchett
The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems â€” and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic… — Kofi Annan
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,… — J M Coetzee
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they. — Bernard of Chartres
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs â€” in… — Carl Sagan
The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China. — John Bruton
We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther… — Bernard of Chartres
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants… — William Hazlitt
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality… — Paul Davies
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. — Joseph Sugarman

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