Quotes About Rikki Tikki Tavi

#1. every predator loves easy prey. Her lip curled, baring fangs that there was no one there to see. Because she wasn't prey. In the vamp world, she was pretty much the apex predator, the mongoose to his snake. And she was about to Rikki Tikki Tavi his ass. Dory

Karen Chance

#2. (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi)

Rudyard Kipling

#3. Because of Kipling, I've sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland - zero, when last I checked - we hardly need a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Michael Dirda

#4. Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.

Orison Swett Marden

#5. The ideal course of life is not always easy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#6. When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

Micky Dolenz

#7. You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.

John Wooden

#8. Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Victoria Moran

#9. I don't know what any of this means, but I know that when I thought you were gone, I couldn't breathe. It felt like half of me was missing." I kept babbling, my edit button not only broken, but completely obliterated. "I'm seventeen. Who feels like this at seventeen?

Myra McEntire

#10. Change your perspective. Enjoy every failure as a success and every win as a loss.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I really like vampire books. I might have a problem.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#12. No Calla.......this is all about love.

Andrea Cremer

#13. It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.

Joan Didion

#14. We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility to decide what's worth pursuing.

Julie Foucher

#15. My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

Jacob K. Javits

#16. Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides; Who covers faults, at last shame them derides.

William Shakespeare

#17. He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.

Charles Kennedy