Havelock Ellis Quotes

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

Havelock Ellis

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• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Truth
  • Parents

• I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Power
  • Best
  • Emotional

• My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Want
  • Dad
  • Bible

• Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Faith
  • Bible
  • Principle

• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Men
  • Happy

• For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Wife

• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Way
  • Bible
  • Routine

• George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Bible
  • Place

• The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Movie
  • Single
  • Magic

• Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Different
  • Single

• There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire – poison and antidote.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Bible

• My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Proud
  • Story
  • Idea

• I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Time
  • Period
  • Gay

• The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Words
  • Bible
  • Gold

• We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

  

  Peter Agre
  • Dad
  • Bible
  • Christmas

• In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

  

  Fulton Oursler
  • World
  • God
  • Book

• We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.

  

  Cliff Richard
  • Bible

• That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • Music
  • Country
  • Bible

• The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

  

  James P. Carse
  • Reading
  • Bible

• The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Bible
  • Creature
  • Oppose

• The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • People
  • Work
  • Celebrity

• There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Care
  • Show

• Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Bible
  • Syphilis
  • Alchohol