Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

Rudyard Kipling

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• Neighbors
• Labors

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Power
  • Black
  • Brain

• When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Song
  • Myself

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Past
  • Like
  • Sea

• I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Team
  • Myself

• The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Being
  • Musicians
  • Intensity

• What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?

  

  Said Nursi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Future

• I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Like
  • Something

• My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Live
  • Me
  • Medical

• Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Movie
  • Growing
  • Video

• I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Kid

• It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Children

• As my poor father used to sayIn 1863,Once people start on all this ArtGoodbye, moralitee!

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Father

• To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Nature
  • Earth

• Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Desire

• There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Party
  • Dark

• Ultimately, my belief is that the best marketing is creating a product that people are excited to talk about. Period.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • People
  • Period
  • Marketing

• Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

  

  Luther Allison
  • Guy

• It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Help
  • Reality
  • Christmas

• He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means 'I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve'. It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Help

• People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.

  

  Page Hamilton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Christmas
  • Laughter
  • Neighbors