Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.
Rudyard Kipling
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'I am more inclined to punish Hurtiancz for his crassness,' said Ildefonse. 'But now he simulates a swinish stupidity to escape my anger.''Absolute falsity!' roared Hurtiancz. 'I simulate nothing!'Ildefonse shrugged. 'For all his deficiencies as polemicist and magician, Hurtiancz at least is candid.'
Jack Vance
They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
Washington Irving
These are not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.
Clyfford Still
And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
Christopher Hitchens
Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.
Andy Dunn
When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.
DJ Khaled
I haven't written a word - except for some correspondence - since last September 8, when I finished my translation of Ibsen's Ghosts.
Lanford Wilson
One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.
Valerie Worth
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
Gabrielle Zevin
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
Rumi
Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.
Rudyard Kipling