Best Colossus Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”

Poetry Influence Petty Persona Dishonor Grave Giant Colossus Caesar Julius Caesar

Book:Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. Compare this king with Haeckel, who towers an intellectual colossus above the crowned mediocrity. Compare George Eliot with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while George Eliot wears robes of glory woven in the loom of her own genius. The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart. We have advanced. We have reaped the benefit of every sublime and heroic self-sacrifice, of every divine and brave act; and we should endeavor to hand the torch to the next generation, having added a little to the intensity and glory of the flame.”

Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

“Colossus: The X-Men need me. But as I said... Trance: Yeah, they don't trust you. I got it. Colossus: What would Wolverine do? Trance: He'd team up with a teenage girl and go kill bad guys.”

X Men Trance Colossus Teenage Girls Hope Abbott Piotr Rasputin What Would Wolverine Do

Book:Amazing X-Men, Vol. 3: Once and Future Juggernaut

Source: Amazing X-Men, Vol. 3: Once and Future Juggernaut

“It seems impossible, but Stryker's so popular. Millions of people believe his every word. To think us evil, simply because we exist? It is madness.”

Comics Marvel Colossus Kitty Pryde X Mem

Book:X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

Source: X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

“I've Got Him! You've got to keep at her. Forget all your training--she's fought you a thousand times." "Don't presume to run my team, you little tart-" (Colossus throws Emma at Danger) "Yes. I see how it works. Normally, I wouldn't have done that.”

Colossus Emma Frost Shadowcat Astonishing X Men

Book:Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

Source: Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

“A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.”

Ifs Wells Ability Mountain Height Dwarfs Dwarves Colossus

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.”

Mother Names Sea Land New York Fame Conquer Greek Flames Giants Sunset Gates Yearning Lightning Limbs Exile Wretched Torches Brazen Statue Of Liberty Colossus

Author:Emma Lazarus

“The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not sown, wasting what he thought would last forever. New railroads were opening new territory. The exploiters were pushing farther and farther into the wilderness. The man who could get his hands on the biggest slice of natural resources was the best citizen. Wealth and virtue were supposed to trot in double harness.”

Source: Breaking New Ground

“Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.”

Said Beautiful Musician Brilliant Comprehensive Colossus Rossini

Author:Charles Gounod

“Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.”

Men Littles Eye Goodness Snow Great Ones Little Man Colossus

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us"... all of us.”

Known Enemy Worst Industry Mets Instinct Marketing Innocent Fund Mutual Investors Suicidal Indulge Worst Enemy Bystanders Carnage Weaponry Mutual Fund Colossus

Author:John C. Bogle

“Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.”

Men World Long Turns White Race Leader Treats Burden Treated Yellow Asia World Leader White Race Colossus

Book:Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.”

Wells Shows Entertainment Capture Bob Biographies Show Business Influential Colossus

Author:Tom Brokaw

“I wasn't a huge fan of the comic book, but I definitely was of the cartoon series. I wasn't much for sitting around and reading as a kid, I preferred to be outside running around and playing sports, but I was absolutely thrilled to get the role of Colossus. I don't think I realised how popular the character was until I got the role and started doing some research; it was then that I really fell in love with the character of Colossus myself.”

Thinking Book Character Running Kids Reading Sports Roles Fans Huge Research Sitting Series Comic Comic Book Cartoon Realised Sitting Around Playing Sports Colossus

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!”

Reason Seems Sides Ignorance Return Kings Europe Mark Come Up Shoulders Barriers Priests Southern Continents Globes Destined Barbarism Colossus

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

“Gordon Brown now bestrides politics and the media like the Colossus of Dunfermline. Whatever happened to Tony Blair?”

Happened Media Brown Blair Colossus

Author:Austin Mitchell

“Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.”

Lines Company Planets Products Accounts Corporate Giants Microsoft Magnet Colossus

Author:David Shenk

“Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.”

Stars Leader Rocks Walking Bars Rock Star Great Leader Commanders Larger Than Life Colossus

Author:Ray Stevenson

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

“How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.”

Knows Mind Firsts Genuine Do You Know Articles Dna X Men Matched Colossus

Author:Joss Whedon

“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”

Poetry Cutting Rocks Genius Stones Cherries Milton Colossus

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

“Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.”

Firsts Action Support Unity Defeat Colossus

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.”

May Littles Doe Reason Hands Nature Teach Pieces Wise Citizens Curiosity Curious Makers Engines Bees Amazed Elephants Spiders Ants Whales Camels Prodigious Colossus

Author:Thomas Browne

“Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.”

Wells Matter Use Used Imagination Results Modern Produce Communication Welfare Nothing Matters Surpassing Colossus Modern Communication

Author:Bill W.

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”

Has Beens Hands Fall Asks Freedom Break Support Pieces Authority Weight Liberation Fallen Resolve Tyrants Servitude Pedestal Enslavement Colossus

Author:Etienne de La Boetie

“Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.”

Splits Defeated Imperialism Colossus

Author:Lin Biao

“The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.”

World War Whole Moments Hundred Down And Burden Fighter War Of The Worlds World War Ii Pilots World War I Coast Pyramids Upside Down Fighter Pilot Colossus

Book:The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945