Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Rudyard Kipling

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• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Love
  • Funny

• For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Question
  • Woman
  • Financial

• I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Think
  • Laugh

• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Better
  • Hunting
  • Racing

• Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Hate
  • Weird
  • Same

• I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Black
  • Fear
  • Brother

• Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

  

  Carl Olson
  • Study
  • Exist
  • Similarities

• I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Time
  • Sick
  • Roles

• Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

  

  Zell Miller
  • People
  • Man
  • Deep

• I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Stop
  • Working
  • About

• It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Time
  • Change
  • Coming

• The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Work
  • Understanding

• Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Fear
  • Actor
  • Anxiety

• He asked my religion and I replied 'agnostic'. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • God

• Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Real
  • Night
  • Patience

• The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Men
  • Together
  • Drink

• Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Character
  • Firsts
  • Coward

• You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there's a voice in you that says, 'I don't know, that's risky,' or 'That's challenging,' then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it's bad, it's bad. You're gonna get over it.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Bad

• Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.

  

  Steven Berkoff
  • Technology
  • Pay
  • Price

• Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Angry
  • Afraid
  • Cowardice