Beryl Markham Quotes
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.Beryl Markham
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
H. P. Lovecraft -
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
P. J. O'Rourke -
I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!
Albert Einstein -
I'm very concerned because I think the Jews want to drive the elephants to extinction because the trunk of an elephant reminds them of an uncircumcised penis. I'm absolutely serious about that... Jews are sick, they're mental cases.
Bobby Fischer -
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.
Plutarch
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We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.'
John F. Kennedy -
Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
Katharine Hepburn -
To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
E. Haldeman-Julius -
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
Aristotle -
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle -
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
Aristotle
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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.
Virginia Woolf -
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Francis Bacon -
You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.
William Blackstone -
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
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Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
Viola Davis -
By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occurs our miracle of democracy: because the groundwork has been surely laid, the goal is already within our grasp.
Newton B. Drury -
All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
Victor Ponta -
My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
Oscar Isaac -
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
Beryl Markham