Copybook Headings Quotes

#1. As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Rudyard Kipling

#2. In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

Rudyard Kipling

#3. When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

Rudyard Kipling

#4. Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Jerry West

#5. It was lonely in that damn motel room. When I'm on the road, I usually have a dog with me. Animals I like. People I learned a long time ago to do without.

Dan J. Marlowe

#6. I see the glass half full ... but of poison.

Woody Allen

#7. In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed on and built nests in there. Why should I not speak like a poet, with a commonwealth of language at my disposal, constantly invigorated by new arrivals?

Rohinton Mistry

#8. When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

Susan Sontag

#9. I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

William Odom

#10. There's always little things that you can find to incorporate, I think, from your life, whether it be the exact circumstance or something similar that maybe brought up a similar emotion in you.

Emilie De Ravin

#11. When everything falls apart, only one thing sustains our hope: God loves us, he loves everyone!

Pope Francis

#12. Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Stendhal

#13. Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced.

Fiona Apple