Edward Whittemore quotes

“Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?”
-- Edward Whittemore

Source : Edward Whittemore (2013). “Nile Shadows”, p.230, Open Road Media

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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”

“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”

“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”

“This world is not my concern; it is myself.”

“The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.”

Source : 1908 Speech to Olympic Games officials, London, 24 Jul.

“Everything in this world depends upon will.”

“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”