Colossal Quotes

• The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Science, Reality

  The Blind Watchmaker Chapter 11

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• I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

  John Fowles

  Thinking, America, Like Me

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• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  Carl Sandburg

  Respect, Ocean, Sea

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

  e. e. cummings

  Sarcastic, Mistake, Moving

  1927 'Why I Like America', in Vanity Fair, May.

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• Thy food is such
  As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Sassy, Lungs

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.400

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• Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Errors, Views, Ideas

  "On Anarchism". Interview with Tom Lane, chomsky.info. December 23, 1996.

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• No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

  Ashanti

  Rivers, Feet, Common Sense

  "The last word on Prudence" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 1999.

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• My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Civilization, Names

  "Ozymandias" l. 9 (1819)

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• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 1978

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• The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Giants, Wave

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• Hillary Clinton has supported virtually every trade agreement that has been destroying our middle class. She supported NAFTA and she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization, another one of her husband's colossal mistakes and disasters. She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership which will not only destroy our manufacturing, but it will make America subject to the rulings of foreign governments. And it's not going to happen.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Husband, Mistake

  Source: time.com

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• Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

  John Adams

  Evil, Slavery, Magnitude

  John Adams (1997). “Rivoluzioni e Costituzioni”, p.37, Guida Editori

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• Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Discovery

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• One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

  Bob Lutz

  Thinking, Political, Advantage

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• We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.

  Carlos Barrios

  War, Environmental, Transition

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• One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Football, Stupid, Average

  "Playboy Interview 1994". Interview with Margy Rochlin, wiki.tarantino.info. 1994.

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• Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Organization, People

  "One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy". Book by Thomas Frank, 2000.

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• Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life.

  Garry Kasparov

  Thinking, Views, Giving

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• What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

  David Eagleman

  Brain, Happenings, Things Happen

  "Persistance Is the Essence of Creativity" by Orion Jones, bigthink.com.

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• Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

  Will Smith

  Distance, Night, Wings

  Song: Afro Angel, Album: Willennium

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• A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Order, Historical, Events

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• No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Care

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• The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  Albert Einstein

  Failure, Men, Tasks

  "Only Then Shall We Find Courage", New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

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• But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Believe, Judging

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• Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Pain, Stupid, Class

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