There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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Related There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, Whose plinths are laid at midnight and wh... RUDYARD KIPLING Between culinary school, a year and a half of apprentice stages all over the world in amazing restau... STACEY BALLIS This place is packed. I think it's great that there are all these youths here. JOSH WARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The marigold, whose courtier's face echoes the sun, and doth unlace her at his rise, at his full sto... JOHN CLEVELAND If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is... RUDYARD KIPLING I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam an... YITZHAK NAVON People whose voices were filled with sarcasm, hostility, coldness, and arrogance are often people wh... THE ELDEST We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and ... GROVER NORQUIST That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at ... RAY BRADBURY There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath... LEO ROSTEN And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it i... BIBLE There are a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pond. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are bor... WILLIAM BLAKE I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I... DOROTHY ALLISON [A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light. CHRISTINE DE PIZAN In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were on... NEIL GAIMAN You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impr... LEO ROSTEN Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily,... E.M. FORSTER It's very cool and there is a lot of tradition here and I love to come here. I really like Darlingto... CHAD KNAUS Solve your problems with love, not razor blades. DAGEN WHITT A new dawn that reminds us that we are not done, inspirations here n there like a re-birth, struggle... PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of your quest...O yo... JALAL AD-DIN RUMI I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST I am the sunrise of sunsets, and I make love like noon at midnight. JAROD KINTZ Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born. ALICE FREEMAN PALMER Life is like Chemistry. There are elements- external & internal, whose absence or presence, either i... ADIL BAMANBEHRAM ; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women ... JOYCE CAROL OATES By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in ... JACKIE MASON By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in wh... JACKIE MASON Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one strikin... HALFORD E. LUCCOCK Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko, Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy..... .....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai, K... VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like ... JOHN MUIR The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is t... F. L. LUCAN The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is t... F. L. LUCAS The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is t... F. L. LUCAS Every Night and every MornSome to Misery are born.Every Morn and every NightSome are born to Sweet D... WILLIAM BLAKE There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themsel... KEVIN J. ANDERSON There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the suns themselv... KEVIN J. ANDERSON Empires and churches are born under the sun of death. ALBERT CAMUS Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by
poverty. UNKNOWN There are forces in the world whose soul is against the unity of the Slav peoples. Those forces, usi... ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn
Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May
New blo... JOHN CLARE If you can try to nap where someone's sitting, Although there is another empty chair, Then... HENRY N. BEARD A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suff... ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suff... ABRAHAM HESCHEL A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suff... ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there,
From me, whose love was of that dignity
That it went h... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I feel like one / Who treads alone / Some banquet-hall deserted, / Whose lights are fled, / Whose ga... THOMAS MOORE If something was worth writing down, it was worth writing down in full. And she had a horror of list... JINCY WILLETT I don't like any of it. I'm sick and tired of menopause. LISA LAMPANELLI Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me ... DOROTHY ALLISON It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. JUVENAL A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a
pipe, whose fragments are thrown ... GEORGE SAND (PSEUDONYM OF MME. DUDEVANT) Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here... EMMA LAZARUS Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest so... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Looking at San Benito High School, there was one particular teacher whose comments were very persona... PAT ADAMS They do not easily rise in the world whose talents are depressed by poverty. VIKRANT PARSAI No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him: there is always work,
And tool... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its o... SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER The youths jumped over the walls of all rules and regulations, broken into wrecked homes of morals, ... MARCO OSCAR OZ There are different kinds of birds and there are different situations and places to find these birds... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but ... NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o... ELMORE LEONARD When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we re... ERIK PEVERNAGIE There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Ve... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses... LAURA BUSH Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. M... PETE EARLEY There are guys you play against or with that you hit who were strong, and then there are guys whose ... RANDY CROSS Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there ... ANN-MARIE MACDONALD Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand/ A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/ Is the i... EMMA LAZARUS Nothing inspires like an idea whose time has come. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone. CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I venerate the man whose heart is warm,
Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,
C... WILLIAM COWPER In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple m... JAMES SUROWIECKI ...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears ... FLAUBERT GUSTAVE We'd love to raise $10,000 this year. We're involving more youths than ever before, and there are at... GWEN BROWN There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honest... JAMES FREY Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Many of our residents work at these hotels and homes in Ipanema, so it's a bit strange to see the ri... CARLOS COSTA No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms o... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,
... JOANNA BAILLIE From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who d... JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight. BOB GELDOF That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and t... RAY BRADBURY Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy, ... JAN STRUTHER There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gi... JAMES COLLINS The athletes are youngsters whose time is still to come. CRAIG ROSS The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. ROBERT HERRICK The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam ROBERT HERRICK Those who believe and whose hearts are set at rest by the remembrance of Allah; now surely by Allah'... QURAN I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better productio... ALEXA RAY JOEL The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. VOLTAIRE This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government,
A city on whom Plenty held full hand,
For Rich... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven ... ANNE ENRIGHT
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RUDYARD KIPLING He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - / But we and Paul must take him as we f... RUDYARD KIPLING Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. RUDYARD KIPLING The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees. RUDYARD KIPLING Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of t... RUDYARD KIPLING . . . an angry skipper makes an unhappy crew . . . RUDYARD KIPLING And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall... RUDYARD KIPLING Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall kee... RUDYARD KIPLING Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ... RUDYARD KIPLING I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. RUDYARD KIPLING The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or any... RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, an... RUDYARD KIPLING If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch. RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato,... RUDYARD KIPLING Your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half devil and half child. RUDYARD KIPLING An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded und... RUDYARD KIPLING A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot. RUDYARD KIPLING 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead. RUDYARD KIPLING Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B... RUDYARD KIPLING 'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? RUDYARD KIPLING There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs. RUDYARD KIPLING It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ... RUDYARD KIPLING If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son prais... RUDYARD KIPLING The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go! RUDYARD KIPLING Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! RUDYARD KIPLING What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live? RUDYARD KIPLING Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law. RUDYARD KIPLING Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The ha... RUDYARD KIPLING There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid. RUDYARD KIPLING And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea! RUDYARD KIPLING There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B... RUDYARD KIPLING The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one RUDYARD KIPLING Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. RUDYARD KIPLING Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. RUDYARD KIPLING If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same. RUDYARD KIPLING When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leade... RUDYARD KIPLING All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We An... RUDYARD KIPLING Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work. RUDYARD KIPLING What avail is honour or a sword against a pen? RUDYARD KIPLING I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus) RUDYARD KIPLING There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu... RUDYARD KIPLING I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf... RUDYARD KIPLING Threatened men live long. RUDYARD KIPLING Witta feared nothing - except to be poor. RUDYARD KIPLING Cites and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye Which daily die; But, as new buds pu... RUDYARD KIPLING It isn't what you say so much. It's what you mean when you say it. RUDYARD KIPLING I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and ... RUDYARD KIPLING East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet RUDYARD KIPLING