Top 90 Quotes About Goliath
#1. He extends a hand, larger than a dinner plate, and I have no choice but to shake it. I think I can feel my metacarpals shattering. Julian jumps to summon our waitress again, mostly to avoid shaking hands with this Goliath. "And a pitcher of mimosas, as soon as humanly possible.
Kristopher Jansma
#2. David slayed Goliath with a single stone.
You crippled my heart with a single lie.
This is the enormity of small things.
Key Ballah
#3. The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
Michael Lewis
#4. What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.
Keith David
#5. Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box with a grieving family outside, or inside a wooden box under six foot of soil with family wondering where you were. The former was if they didn't hold a grudge.
Jasper Fforde
#6. I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay
David Wong
#7. That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
Malcolm Gladwell
#8. When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant "Goliath!" and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#9. It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.
Russell M. Nelson
#10. Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation
John Helm
#11. Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.
Mark Oliver
#12. The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#13. God, remember when we defeated Goliath, when we pastured sheep or we threw, in vain, the nets, and You chose us."
FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ASAPH BOOK
Roberto Ornan Roche
#15. Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.
Tyson Fury
#16. This is how David felt after Goliath was on his back like a bitch.
Brian Krans
#17. It's a great time for independent media because technology reduces the entry barrier. It makes it a phenomenal time for media in general. It's David versus Goliath, and David is always a little smarter, more nimble, more fast.
Sasa Vucinic
#18. It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single "David" standing with God, than a million "Goliath's" standing without Him.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. When David killed Goliath, Mae Young called the cops.
Jerry Lawler
#20. Goliath, dissatisfied with his size advantage, has bought David's sling.
Michael Lewis
#21. David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone ... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle.
Charles Studd
#22. David overcame Goliath. Job withstood loss. Faith will carry you through the day. Just believe.
Derrick L. Randall
#23. How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal man, Everyman, all of whom,from the beginning of time,
had faced a decision to strike for freedom
Irving Stone
#24. I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
Nancy Lublin
#25. The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.
Terry Butcher
#26. It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.
Beny Steinmetz
#27. Always remember ... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.
Ralph Jordan
#28. The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.
John F. Kennedy
#30. Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He is so big. We can never kill him." David looked at the same giant and thought, "He is so big. I can't miss."
Russell Johnston
#31. Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.
Ronald Reagan
#32. Goliath always has a weakness; an ant is small but can defeat an elephant.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.
Phil Knight
#34. Some children at one of his tournaments in Burgundy had taken to calling him "Goliath". Not the most endearing biblical character.
Melanie Dickerson
#35. This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!
Scott Westerfeld
#36. Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
Ronald Reagan
#37. Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!
Joyce Meyer
#38. It's an empowering idea. The entire goliath of the food industry is driven and determined by the choices we make as the waiter gets impatient for our order or in the practicalities ad whimsies of what we load into our shopping carts or farmers'-market bags.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#39. I can't imagine befriending Goliath and then leading him to the Syrena to be eaten. But I also can't imagine letting Galen or Toraf starve. Probably not Rayna either. It's time to introduce my new friends to the world of pizza ...
Anna Banks
#40. The Goliath could have been carrying a squadron of the new - and seemingly disposable - TIE fighters.
James Luceno
#41. My attitude was and still is like that of David, who was ashamed that the armies of Israel would tremble before Goliath. Without hesitation he stepped forward with complete confidence in the God who had proven Himself to be faithful (1 Sam 17). For David, the size of the giant was irrelevant.
Dave Hunt
#42. Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?
George Eliot
#43. Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
Max Lucado
#44. God is a champion on the battlefield;
whenever Goliath intimidates you,
call on His name.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#45. Michelangelo didn't show David triumphant, the way every other sculptor did. He showed David before he fought Goliath - when David believed he was doomed and went into battle anyway.
James Patterson
#46. Smallness is subversive, because smallness can creep into smaller places and wreak transformation at the most vulnerable, cellular level. In a time when largeness is threatening to topple us, I wish to remember and praise the beauty of smallness, in order to banish the Goliath of loneliness.
Sarah Ruhl
#47. The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.
John Marsden
#48. Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.
Randy Johnson
#49. We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth belongs to us.
Richard Wurmbrand
#50. Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.
Yitzhak Shamir
#51. Commitment in relationship, has today resurrected into an experienced Goliath, in a land where David is already dead and buried. Show me anyone who may be willing to face the new experienced Goliath?
Francis Otieno
#52. It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys always have. They think the only reason I've ever had any success in my career is because of my physical size. And you know what? If that's the case, so be it. I really don't care. Because I have that size.
Kevin Nash
#53. David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants.
Malcolm Gladwell
#54. Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.
David B. Haight
#55. Up against Goliath, to bring butter home.
I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.
Ka
#56. I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.
Erri De Luca
#57. Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff.
Max Lucado
#58. I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher.
Alex Gibney
#59. Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#60. He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"
"As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.
Scott Westerfeld
#61. In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the story of David and Goliath and David's friend, the Stealth Bomber.
Tina Fey
#62. The giant's name was Goliath. The shepherd boy's name was David.
Malcolm Gladwell
#63. The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
Jasper Fforde
#64. First thought of the morning, last worry of the night - your Goliath dominates your day and infiltrates your joy.
Max Lucado
#66. I took my Power in my Hand
And went against the World
'Twas not so much as David
had
But I
was twice as bold
I aimed by Pebble
but Myself Was all the one that fell
Was it Goliath
was too large
Or was myself
too small?
Emily Dickinson
#68. Adversity is what illuminates quagmires, but all that really matters is destiny.We cannot be blinded by present circumstances which roar like Goliath and sent shivers down the spine. That's not what destiny holds, remember; mercy spurned is demise embraced.
Trinity Tinashe Masunungure
#69. Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#70. The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.
Randy Wayne White
#72. What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?
Nuala O'Faolain
#73. When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?
Harvey Weinstein
#74. Comeback stories are popular because there is truth in them. It is a morality tale. The good guy has to win. The underdog has to defeat the big bad wolf. David beat Goliath did he not? The bad guy has to lose. That is how it works.
Kambiz Mostofizadeh
#75. Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?
Brandi L. Bates
#76. If the enemy sends it's Goliath into battle, it magnifies our cause.
Jerome Lawrence
#77. In this very moment I'm king In this very moment I slayed Goliath with a sling
Nicki Minaj
#78. The one place that David is equal to Goliath is in the Supreme Court.
Joe Biden
#79. As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
Scott Westerfeld
#80. Until pains are endured, depressions surmounted, mockeries ignored and goliaths conquered, destiny might not be achieved
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#81. Our confidence is not in what we have, but He who freely gave us what we have. If God's will is in your little stones, they will surely bring down giant Goliaths ... but you have to make the throw!
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
Scott Westerfeld
#83. Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
Scott Westerfeld
#84. Oh, this beast? It's ... perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
Scott Westerfeld
#85. You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
Scott Westerfeld
#87. And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
Scott Westerfeld
#88. Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"
"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.
Scott Westerfeld
