Elephants Quotes - Page 18

• Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

  William Faulkner

  Giving, Caviar, Pointless

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• We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around. The people involved in protecting those elephants, like rangers on the ground, are so under-resourced. They have very few vehicles, they have very poor weapons (if any weapons at all), and they are treated as the bottom of the tree when it comes to law enforcement priority.

  Allen Crawford

  Law, People, Priorities

  "Crawford Allen. Senior Director. Traffic. World Wildlife Fund". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.

  Christoph Waltz

  Distance, Ideas, Next

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

  John Locke

  Character, Army, Science

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• The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.

  Alan Weisman

  Running, New York, Fall

  Source: www.today.com

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• The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?

  Ron Reagan

  Jobs, Drunk, Accomplishment

  "Reagan Blasts Bush". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. April 14, 2003.

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• The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

  Pope Gregory I

  Running, Feet, Water

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• I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in China…you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment.

  Jan Gehl

  Men, Quality, Gorillas

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• ... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Nature, Hands

  "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

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• Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.

  Thomas French

  Zebras, Distance, Eye

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• I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

  Enrico Fermi

  Four, Remember, Fit

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, "Nature" Volume 427, p. 297, January 22, 2004.

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• 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

  Gun, Men, Design

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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• When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Hunting, Rabbits, Chasing

  Twitter post from Feb 09, 2012

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• It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

  Arthur Mutambara

  Rats

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• I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspiring, Believe, Thinking

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• I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Dog, Hands

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Car, Bigs, Motor

  Wyndham Lewis (1914). “Blast”, Kraus Reprint Corp.

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• Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?
  A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.

  Bucky Sinister

  Differences, Peanut Butter, Peanuts

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• The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.

  Ugo Monye

  Safari, Lions, Cages

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• This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?

  Lee Ryan

  New York, Giving, Proportion

  "Question Time dream team panel: From Katie Price to Joey Essex - the celebrities we want to see speak their mind" by Jessica Haworth, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2014.

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• One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Religious, Spring

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• Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

  Bill Bryson

  Whales, Brain, Doe

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.443, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Men, Mind, Might

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.259

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• I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.

  Rahul Gandhi

  People, Laughing, India

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• China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Dragons, India, China

  "India is a 'beehive', Rahul Gandhi tells India Inc". www.ndtv.com. April 4, 2013.

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