Edward Topsell Quotes

There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

Edward Topsell

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• We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Where

• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Look
  • Priority

• I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Night
  • Morning

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Important
  • Art

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Job
  • Text

• A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Love
  • Investment
  • Only

• It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Day
  • Broken
  • Stand

• I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Never
  • Until
  • Watergate

• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Born

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Twilight

• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Gay

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• 'So you say, so you say,' murmured Fflewddur, hurrying after him. 'Look closer into your heart. You may find your opinion to be somewhat different.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Different
  • Heart
  • May

• This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Country
  • Taken

• I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • School
  • Future
  • Psychology

• When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • Focus

• The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Men

• You should study Pokemon to get stronger.

  

  Kazushi Sakuraba
  • Should
  • Stronger
  • Pokemon

• My children and I can talk about anything and everything. It makes it easier. They know I’m doing my best, and that’s the best I can do.

  

  Claudia Brant
  • Children
  • Best
  • I Do

• The interiorization of the technology of the phonetic alphabet translates man from the magical world of the ear to the neutral visual world. (p. 21)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • Technology

• There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

  

  Edward Topsell
  • Wisdom
  • Creature
  • Demonstration