Rudyard Kipling Quotes

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

Rudyard Kipling

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• Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Power
  • Death

• If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Feels
  • Ifs
  • Outsiders

• And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Great
  • Fighting
  • Religious

• People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Break
  • Equal
  • Taxes

• The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Hinduism
  • Vedas

• It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.

  

  Adolph Ochs
  • Opinion
  • News
  • Impartially

• I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous case—the total abolition of the African slave-trade. I close it with the prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and set the black man free.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Hope
  • Interest
  • Produce

• Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

  

  Tacitus
  • Diseases
  • Operation
  • Remedies

• My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.

  

  Brom
  • Written
  • Tale

• A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Operation
  • Tale
  • Performed