Dwarfs Quotes
51 quotes by 42 authors
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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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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
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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
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In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.
— Susan Sontag
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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
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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
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The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic…
— Kofi Annan
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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
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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
— Bernard of Chartres
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Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in…
— Carl Sagan
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The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.
— John Bruton
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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
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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
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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
— William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.
— Joseph Sugarman
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