Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
Quotes to Explore
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In the beginning was the Word.In the end...past honor, past life, past caring...In the end will be the Word.
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I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.
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Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have.
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Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.
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Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.
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Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
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I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.
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One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.
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It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.
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My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.
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Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
