Kiplings Serpent In The Jungle Book Quotes & Sayings

We were in Jon's car. "I have the first part I need. The pain-killer. You see I had to go to a doctor for an ingrown toenail. He operated. Then he gave me a pain-killer afterwards. It worked great..."
"Where are we going?"
"You'll see. Anyhow, I had to go back to get the toe checked. I said to the doctor, 'That pain-killer was great, it lasted ten hours. Tell me about it.' He told me about it. Then I asked him, 'Can I see it?' And he took me to this medicine cabinet and pointed it out. 'Very interesting,' I said. We talked a bit more, then I left. But I had a bag with me, a small travelling bag. I left it by the medicine cabinet. Then I left the office, came back. 'Oh,' I told the receptionist, 'I left my bag.' I went to get the bag and there was nobody around. I opened the cabinet and took the pain-killer."
"You can't do this," I told Jon.
"I must, " he answered. — Charles Bukowski

To hold power in this world is to know things that others do not want to know. — Michael Davidow

The immensity of the universe with the vastness of space and uncountable heavenly bodies is so outside our control and power. What is man compared to such awesome magnificence? It is a humbling experience to note one's insignificance. — Sharon Lathan

No human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world. — Henry Louis Gates Jr.

How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. — Cecelia Ahern

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self. — Neale Donald Walsch

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. — Famke Janssen

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We have to believe that by engaging in dialogue with the other person, we have the possibility of making a change within ourselves, that we can become deeper. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again. — Richard Schmid

Such compliments
they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individual stones to examine later, but they'd exist with such potency only now, in this moment. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy. — Louis Farrakhan

Failure is not falling to the ground; it is remaining there once you have fallen and the greatest failure is when you decide not to stand up again. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. — Nancy Mitford