Rudyard Kipling Quotes

There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

Rudyard Kipling

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• It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Country
  • Question

• I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.

  

  Warren G
  • Life
  • Country
  • Home

• One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Live

• When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Trying
  • Joy

• Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Ideas

• There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Views
  • Errors

• Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

  

  Euripides
  • Heart
  • Wise
  • God`s gift

• The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Society
  • Political
  • Health

• He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

  

  Confucius
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • Asked

• Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Cause
  • Flows

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Education
  • Purpose

• We have about four kids going in both sports. It's a shame they schedule this all so close together, but you do what you can.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • Kids
  • Sports
  • Four

• I’m adjusting to my teammates and my teammates are adjusting to me — just subtle things like when do I pass it, when do they pass it to me, where I want the ball, where I don’t want to the ball. As time goes on, it will make it even better.

  

  Zion Williamson
  • Pass
  • Teammates
  • Adjusting

• There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Pass
  • Jewel
  • Gems