This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
RUDYARD KIPLING
RUDYARD KIPLING
Rudyard Kipling on adventure
Rudyard Kipling84 quotes · See all“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling It’s always best to tell the truth.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
Sylvester StalloneSylvester Stallone New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.
George ForemanGeorge Foreman If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy I wan’t a girl who is fun and loves adventure.
Louis TomlinsonLouis Tomlinson The best trip I ever took was the one outside of my comfort zone.
Sonya MatejkoSonya Matejko I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing – I think it would give me that extra confidence.
Vanessa HudgensVanessa Hudgens I looked again at my new ring and in that moment all I knew, was that the greatest of adventures would be revealed in with you.
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