Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Rudyard Kipling

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• One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Know
  • Jesus
  • Teach

• I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Color

• I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

  

  B. B. King
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Effort
  • Decree
  • Regulator

• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Pride
  • Goofy
  • Embarrass

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Happy

• In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Government
  • Sea
  • Process

• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Work
  • Past

• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

  

  Wayne White
  • Purpose
  • Leave
  • Drive

• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Done
  • Know
  • Government

• If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • House
  • Beautiful

• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hearts
  • Big
  • July

• I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • American
  • Literature
  • Doing

• I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Literature

• Good literature erects bridges between different peoples, and by having us enjoy, suffer, or feel surprise, unites us beneath the languages, beliefs, habits, customs, and prejudices that separate us.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Good
  • Different
  • Literature

• This sort of admission of error, of change, makes us trust a critic as nothing else but omniscience could...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Trust

• I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long it's not a job, then you're straight.

  

  Astro
  • Music
  • Long
  • Job

• Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Literature
  • Mistress
  • Bad Wife