Francis Kingdon Ward quotes

“Make sure you want it enough.”
-- Francis Kingdon Ward

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“Questions are creative acts of intelligence.”
-- Francis Kingdon Ward

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“I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion”
-- Francis Kingdon Ward

Source : Francis Kingdon Ward, John Duncan Vaughan Campbell Cawdor (5th Earl of) (1926). “The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges”

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“We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.”

“Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.”

“OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.”

“Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.”

“It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.”

“No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.”

“Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.”

“Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.”

“It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.”

“It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!”