Colossus Quotes:

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.

- Adolf Galland

source: Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

topic: War, Pyramids, World, Colossus, Fighter Pilot

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

- Emma Lazarus

source: "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

topic: Tired, Giving, Empathy, July 4th 1776, Statue Of Liberty

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

- Samuel Johnson

source: To Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written 'Paradise Lost' should write such poor Sonnets, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 305 (13 June 1784)

topic: Cutting, Rocks, Poetry, Milton, Colossus

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!

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2014). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817”, p.285, Princeton University Press

topic: Kings, Ignorance, Europe, Colossus

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.

- Emma Lazarus

source: "The New Colossus" l. 1 (1883).

topic: Mother, New York, Sunset, Statue Of Liberty, Colossus

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.

- Etienne de La Boetie

source: "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.

topic: Fall, Hands, Tyrants, Servitude, Enslavement

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

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger,

topic: Dwarves, Mountain, Height, Colossus

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.

- Bill W.

topic: Communication, Imagination, Use, Modern Communication, Colossus

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.

- Ray Stevenson

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Stars, Rocks, Leader, Colossus

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

- Lin Biao

topic: Splits, Defeated, Imperialism, Colossus

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.

- David Shenk

topic: Lines, Giants, Microsoft, Colossus

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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Support, Unity, Firsts, Colossus

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

- Austin Mitchell

topic: Media, Blair, Brown, Colossus

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.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Dna, Mind, Firsts, Colossus

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.

- Daniel Cudmore

source: Source: me.askmen.com

topic: Sports, Running, Book, Playing Sports, Colossus

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.

- Tom Brokaw

topic: Influential, Show Business, Colossus

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.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Men, Race, Yellow, White Race, Colossus

It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.7, Booklassic

topic: Ignorance, Simple, Men, Generalities, Unraveling

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.

- John C. Bogle

source: Poster for Earth Day (1970). Also appeared in the Pogo comic strip for 8 Aug. 1970.

topic: Suicidal, Bystanders, Marketing, Colossus, Weaponry

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

- Walter Savage Landor

topic: Eye, Men, Snow, Colossus

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.

- Charles Gounod

topic: Beautiful, Musician, Brilliant, Colossus, Rossini

... 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.

- Thomas Browne

source: "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

topic: Wise, Nature, Hands, Colossus

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.

- Gifford Pinchot

source: Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.23, Island Press

topic: Men, Hands, Land, Colossus, New Territory