“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.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book
“ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book
“What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book
“This talk went in at one ear and out at the other, for a boy who spends his life eating and sleeping does not worry about anything till it actually stares him in the face. But, one year, Baloo's words came true, and Mowgli saw all the Jungle working under the Law.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book
“Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey!”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book
“Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Born place: in Bombay, India
Born date December 30, 1865
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“We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is good for us.'
'For you, because you're young, Wanda. You have many, many evenings ahead of you. I don't. I want more good ones.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
“Fuuuuuuuuuuck." Kynan scrubbed his face. "I could use a double shot of whiskey right now."
"I'm sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind the bar."
"Flicka?"
"I don't want to say her name."
"So you're calling her horse names?" Ky coked a dark eyebrow. "I can't wait to see how she reacts to Mr. Ed.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Immortal Rider
“We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from Sword & Citadel
“I feel us tilting toward each other like trees in a strong breeze. I've been craving the sight of him for days, but now its not enough. I'm not sure who moves first. The inches between us are erased until I'm in his arms and my mouth finds his.”
― Jessica Spotswood, quote from Born Wicked
“He glanced back and saw a Gestapo man standing in his window, aiming his Luger at him and firing again and again. Without thinking, Jacob turned now and began to run. He was scared of slipping in the rain and falling ten or fifteen meters and breaking every bone in his body. But he was even more scared of being shot down like a dog. He had no choice. It was flee or perish. So he was running now atop his neighbor’s roof, and soon he was leaping from roof to roof. He could hear yelling and more gunfire. But he would not look back again. He could not. There was no time. He knew every step could be his last. He raced down the entire block, twenty-two houses in a row. Soon all sound faded away.”
― Joel C. Rosenberg, quote from The Auschwitz Escape
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