Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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  Walid Jumblatt
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  • Battle
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• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
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  • Rule
  • Within

• By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
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• The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Dark

• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Good
  • Yourself
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• Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Story
  • Very
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• Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Poetry
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• I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Love
  • She

• When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Real
  • Russia
  • Ukraine

• For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Truth

• I'll do one eventually as life's too short and none of us is getting any younger. I'd like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Short

• Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Knowledge
  • Wise
  • Grief

• All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.

  

  William Davenant
  • Gratitude
  • Birth

• Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Friends
  • Associate
  • Best Of People

• Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Music
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• I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Believe
  • West
  • South

• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • West
  • Civilized
  • Asia