Rudyard Kipling Quotes

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.

Rudyard Kipling

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• Die
• Gods
• Promised

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• No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Day

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Scary
  • Old

• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back

• I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Natural
  • Anything

• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • You
  • Will
  • Saying

• I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Celebrity

• I grew up being absolutely in love with Tom Hanks. I remember, all the kids had Brad Pitt plastered all over their textbooks, and then I had Tom Hanks plastered over mine.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Textbooks

• To know yourself less beloved than you love, is a dreadful feeling

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Feeling

• It has been claimed that Dr. Weishaupt was an atheist, a Cabalistic magician, a rationalist, a mystic; a democrat, a socialist, an anarchist, a fascist; a Machiavellian amoralist, an alchemist, a totalitarian and an 'enthusiastic philanthropist.' (The last was the verdict of Thomas Jefferson, by the way.)

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Atheist

• They have to have an enemy. They have to create you as their enemy in order for them to continue their existence. It’s very ironic.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Enemy
  • Ironic

• I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Up
  • Live

• Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Positive

• There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.

  

  Marion Bartoli
  • Life
  • Time
  • Tennis

• Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

• One of the things I discovered about myself is I'm just really positive.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Positive

• If you're going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won't play good anyways.

  

  Jason Day
  • Up
  • Good
  • May

• I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.

  

  James Altucher
  • Up
  • Chess

• I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears - I had very small ear canals - removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner.

  

  Lauren Worsham
  • Small

• Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Money
  • Know
  • Security

• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Sarah Paulson is mind-blowing. I mean, she always is. She's always fantastic.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Mind
  • She

• In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Money
  • Die
  • Gods