Keen Quotes

330 Keen quotes by 284 unique authors

In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots.… — Louis Tomlinson
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting… — Laini Taylor
She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so… — Haruki Murakami
Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has… — Unknown Author
Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind.… — Stephen King
And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more… — Sylvia Plath
After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like… — Elizabeth George Speare
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. — Billy Graham
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness. — Mahatma Gandhi
When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life… — Jude Law
Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your… — Clive Swift
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. — Thomas Merton
People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes… — Ricardo Semler
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks. — Carmen Ejogo
My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used… — Iain De Caestecker
The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful, but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you. There… — Mario Balotelli
India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am… — Viswanathan Anand
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding.… — Paul Auster
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who… — Terry Pratchett
China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the… — Chiang Kai-shek
Having travelled and lived and worked in many different places, I was keen to come back and settle in Nottingham, partly because my family are… — Unknown Author
At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are… — F. Sionil Jose

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