#gigantic

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#gigantic #him #his #like #man

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals. ↗

— Johann Most

#before #behalf #consider #gigantic #goals

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#freedom #gigantic #give #give me #i

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#both #both sides #common #divide #feel

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#faults #favorite #gigantic #hide #more

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#arts #gigantic #men #racket #run

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#consisted #convinced #day #france #gigantic

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ↗

— Cynthia Heimel

#being #between #brilliantly #creative #doubt

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#defects #enough #even #everything #forgive

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them. ↗

— Georg Henrik von Wright

#companies #gigantic #industrial #longer #operate