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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4915637 | Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain. | progress revolution | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| ca42755 | I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion's general pattern required that two predictions be affirmed (or else we were in trouble): this population must disappear by hybridization with mottled shells toward bank-interior coasts and with ribby snails toward the bank-edge. We hiked west toward the bank-interior and easily found hybrids right on the verge of the airpo.. | prediction understanding | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| 2cd5758 | In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 4212501 | But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437 | choice living predestination | Joseph Delaney | |
| 9e5fe61 | Everyone has his price. It's just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn't hurt you too much. - Dad | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 00757f6 | You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter, in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| fa5943f | The price is the blood of the girl who cowers behind you. - Hecate to Grimalkin about Thorne | Joseph Delaney | ||
| f98983e | A true knight has a strict code of chivalry by which he lives his life: He cannot refuse a challenge and he always keeps his word. I also have a code of honor, but it is flexible. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 99a4b06 | What is evil?' asked the Fiend | evil existential-questions philosophical | Joseph Delaney | |
| ee3885a | Witta feared nothing - except to be poor. | money pragmatism wealth | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 6be48b1 | How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally pestered by women? There was that girl at the Akrola by the Ford; and there was the scullion's wife behind the dovecote -- not counting the others -- and now comes this one! When I was a child it was well enough, but now I am a man and they will not regard me as a man. Walnuts indeed! Ho! Ho! It is almonds in the Plains! | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 7122717 | Ay, roar well," said Bagheera, under his whiskers, "for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 4433292 | Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says. | civilization civilzation-quotes | Rudyard Kipling | |
| d6edd9b | For a wolf, no," said Tabaqui, "but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast. Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?" He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 128c40c | Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| c6d96fb | He has oppressed Beetle, M'Turk, and me, privatim et seriatim, one by one, as he could catch us. But now he has insulted Number Five up in the music-room, and in the presence of these - these ossifers of the Ninety-third, wot look like hairdressers. Binjimin, we must make him cry "Capivi!"' Stalky's reading did not include Browning or Ruskin." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 74d3c29 | And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.' They clattered upstairs, injured virtue on every inch of their backs. 'But - but what the dickens have we done?' said Harrison, amazedly, to Craye. 'I don't know. Only - it always happens that way when one has anything to do with them. They're so beastly plausible. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 66df703 | No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 085e8af | When Earth's last picture is painted And the tubes are twisted and dried When the oldest colors have faded And the youngest critic has died We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it Lie down for an aeon or two 'Till the Master of all good workmen Shall put us to work anew And those that were good shall be happy They'll sit in a golden chair They'll splash at a ten league canvas With brushes of comet's hair They'll find real saints t.. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 087682f | The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| ecd88be | If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss... | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 7ef0ef1 | As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man- There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:- That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 59f8cd1 | There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make. | friendship-quotes | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 42bfcd3 | I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus) | quotes revenge | Rudyard Kipling | |
| cda8f35 | Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| cae92f2 | You may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and you can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and SEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN. | hunting | Rudyard Kipling | |
| bba689e | J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, Rudyard Kipling and P. G. Wodehouse. | John Lloyd | ||
| 784ceef | The country isn't half worked out because they that governs it won't let you touch it. They spend all their blessed time in governing it, and you can't lift a spade, nor chip a rock, nor look for oil, nor anything like that without all the Government saying -- 'Leave it alone and let us govern.' Therefore, such as it is, we will let it alone, and go away to some other place where a man isn't crowded and can come to his own. We are not littl.. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| f7f0977 | Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free-- The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 176e260 | Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request. Mrs. Cheyne lived in fear of breaking his spirit, which, perhaps, was the reason that she herself walked on the edge of nervous prostration. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 3c7fc42 | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" At the hole where he went in Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin. Hear what little Red-Eye saith: "Nag, come up and dance with death!" Eye to eye and head to head, (Keep the measure, Nag.) This shall end when one is dead; (At thy pleasure, Nag.) Turn for turn and twist for twist-- (Run and hide thee, Nag.) Hah! The hooded Death has missed! (Woe betide thee, Nag!)" | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| c3047f6 | I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp," said the lama, smiling slowly." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 871b36e | We are dead to love and honor/We are lost to hope and truth/We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung/And the measure of our horror is the measure of our youth/God help us for we knew the worst too young! | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| b4341f4 | A is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the ankles, and she leads men to torment. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 7a280a7 | I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. --RUDYARD KIPLING Will | Dale Carnegie | ||
| 85325c8 | Roman Centurion's Song" LEGATE, I had the news last night - my cohort ordered home By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome. I've marched the companies aboard, the arms are stowed below: Now let another take my sword. Command me not to go! I've served in Britain forty years, from Vectis to the Wall, I have none other home than this, nor any life at all. Last night I did not understand, but, now the hour draws near That ca.. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 29b258f | Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| fde95bb | It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the b.. | fishing morning nautical naval ocean ship | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 389ef13 | All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 8ca9853 | God He knows we need men more and more in the Game. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 321dbf0 | ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave," --W.E. Henley." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 43a7030 | After he'd gone, she'd suffered a momentary, nearly immobilizing flash of panic--what if the Hunters somehow managed to find her while he was gone?--but it dissipated swiftly, leaving her astonished to realize that she truly trust him to keep her safe, at least from everything besides himself. | gabby karen-marie-moning the-immortal-highlander | Karen Marie Moning | |
| 972e5db | But the loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly, eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 99e5e8f | But there is a way of despising the dandelion which is not that of the dreary pessimist, but of the more offensive optimist. It can be done in various ways; one of which is saying, "You can get much better dandelions at Selfridge's," or "You can get much cheaper dandelions at Woolworth's." Another way is to observe with a casual drawl, "Of course nobody but Gamboli in Vienna really understands dandelions," or saying that nobody would put up.. | happiness optimism | G.K. Chesterton |