In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant-the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes.
Quotes about colossus (10 Quotes)
Far from being a serious bid to build an Asian-Pacific colossus, the bid is a crude maneuver to stop Patrick competing with Toll in Australia. Patrick doesn't need Toll.
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus and we petty men Walk under his huge legs.
... indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders what wise hand teacheth them to doe what reason cannot teach us ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, Whales, Elephants, Dromidaries and Camels these I confesse, are the Colossus and Majestick pieces of her hand but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks, and the civilitie of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdome of their Maker.
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He is the single most successful architect of a financial services colossus of our time.
He will be very welcome, and he will get a great reception, why not He deserves it because of the fact he was one of our great players, a very special player, a colossus, a giant of a man in every sense of the word.
A giant will keep his size even though he will have stood in a well. Colossus magnitudinem suam servabit etiam si steterit in puteo.
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.