Beryl Markham Quotes

I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.

Beryl Markham

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• Impudence
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• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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  • Country
  • Species

• I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Me
  • Travel
  • Make

• We are a naturally hierarchical species.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Album

• When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Long
  • Age

• It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Earth
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• The most effective way to save endangered species is to protect the places they need to live.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Live
  • Way
  • Species

• There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World
  • Great
  • Today

• I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

  

  Emperor Hirohito
  • Tears
  • Japanese
  • Species

• Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Humans
  • Species
  • Meals

• An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Habit
  • Species
  • Source Of Morality

• Abuse is an indirect species of homage.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Abuse
  • Species
  • Homage

• The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dead
  • Species
  • Attractive

• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Create
  • Exist

• In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Wisdom
  • Species

• I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Stage
  • Human Beings
  • Species

• My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Recognize
  • Species

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Species
  • Arrest

• The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

  

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  • War
  • Next
  • Convinced

• We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Introduce

• Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Break
  • Bad Guys

• I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Study
  • Enjoy
  • Teach

• Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Wells
  • Died

• I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Species
  • Hunt
  • Impudence