Rudyard Kipling Quotes

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
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• Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
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• I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Death
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• You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Time
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• There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • School
  • Together
  • Support

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what they need as far as role modeling. So I don't feel the pressure for them.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Strong

• Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

  

  Pat Morita
  • People
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• I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Life
  • Business
  • Kids

• But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • City

• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • May
  • Day
  • Lies

• We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Nature
  • Desire

• But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Words

• I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Rock

• Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • World
  • Why

• Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

  

  Marc Jacobs
  • Great

• They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no line he wouldn't cross to keep her safe.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Heart
  • She
  • Safe

• every individual is made in the image of God, insofar as he or she is a rational and free creature capable of knowing God and loving him.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • God
  • She
  • Free

• Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Art
  • Blessing

• A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Heart
  • Tongue
  • Jungle