Rudyard Kipling Quotes

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

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• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
  • Drug
  • Because

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Me

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Nature
  • Player
  • Feelings

• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Permanent
  • Learners

• 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • True
  • Nature
  • Understand

• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Humanity
  • Wise
  • Unique

• I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Up
  • Character
  • Nature

• If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature
  • Reality

• All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Real
  • History
  • Nature

• The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one-the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective. The one artisanal, teachable thing is outer conduct.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Job
  • Help
  • Nature

• Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Nature
  • Water

• But then the need of being loved, the strongest need … in poor Maggie’s nature, began to wrestle with her pride and soon threw it.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Pride

• Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Hand
  • Gentleman

• I have need of a friend.There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend.And that one is my love.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Friend
  • Air
  • My Love

• I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Boyfriend

• Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • History
  • Memories

• I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Nature
  • Humanity
  • Drug