Rudyard Kipling Quotes
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Quotes to Explore
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.
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As servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our sacred responsibility to teach His standard of morality, which is the same for all of His children.
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They acknowledged the problem of market timing, but then allowed a favored client to engage in that harmful practice. The departure of these board members should sound an alarm for all those who serve in similar capacities.
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After a few weeks, Frank did not appear to want Martha there, but she stayed. When Frank stopped speaking to her, it made no difference and they lived that way for twenty years.
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If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!
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There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.
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Success is the reward for toil.
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In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
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“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.”
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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.
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For you do by nature want to do what you take to be good for you; reason reveals that what is in fact good for you is acting in a way that is conducive to the fulfillment of the ends or purposes inherent in human nature; and so if you are rational, and thus open to seeing what is in fact good for you, you will take the fulfillment of those ends or purposes to be good for you and act accordingly. This may require a fight against one’s desires and such a fight might in some cases be so extremely difficult and unpleasant that one might not have the stomach for it. But that is a problem of will, not of reason. It doesn’t show that the rational thing is not to struggle against one’s desires, but only that doing the rational thing can sometimes be extremely difficult and unpleasant.
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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
