Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

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• I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Cards
  • Cash
  • Boots

• I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Trying
  • Agree
  • Admire

• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Energy
  • Player
  • Year

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• I'm interested in playing, not working.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Working
  • Playing
  • Interested

• Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Friends
  • Worry
  • Moral

• Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • God
  • Bad
  • Me

• The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.

  

  Gary Numan
  • You
  • Me
  • Idea

• America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • War
  • Tax

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Film
  • Risks
  • Documentary

• There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Act

• There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Best
  • Baby

• To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.

  

  David Canary
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I want people to know that I am having fun. That's the biggest compliment I can get is when people tell me I'm having a blast out there - if they only knew. I'm having the time of my life every night.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• You're lucky if you reach the point where you go, "OK, I have a wonderful life ...I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what's to complain about?" But I think you have to get there... And it's taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I'm like, "I'm very lucky, I'm lucky, I'm blessed" - all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you're young, you just don't listen.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • People
  • Birth
  • Terror