Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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• Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Internet

• I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

  

  Ian St. John
  • People
  • House
  • Dance

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Political
  • Revolution

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Sports
  • Back
  • Go

• The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Spring

• I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Want
  • Talent

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Road
  • Take

• Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beginning

• Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Side
  • Angels
  • Too

• Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • France
  • Others
  • Italy

• Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Understand
  • Young
  • Social

• The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Live
  • Age

• The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Today
  • Years
  • Students

• When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

  

  Neal Brennan
  • People
  • Black
  • Side

• To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

  

  Trick Daddy
  • Together
  • Working
  • Masters

• My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Parents
  • Best
  • Always

• I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Sin

• We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • World
  • Important
  • Business

• Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Trees
  • Thorn
  • Old England