Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
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I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.
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We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
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I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.
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I do not wish disaster to British arms.
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The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we're focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide.
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Senator, I'm happy to continue the discussion, but I really hope that you will not imply that I take the truth lightly.
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Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
