Keen Quotes

330 Keen quotes by 284 unique authors

Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just go and hold… — Miranda Hart
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to… — Douglas Adams
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for… — Thomas Carlyle
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. — Napoleon Hill
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May. — Denis Norden
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But… — Valentina Tereshkova
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I… — Saul Bellow
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision,… — Anthony Hecht
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although… — William Shakespeare
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. — John E. Walker
What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that… — John Henry Newman
I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting… — Alfred Hitchcock
Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have… — Hunter S. Thompson
My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly… — Warren G. Harding
I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one. — Mark Haddon
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between… — Charles Lyell
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how… — Wayne Muller
With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart. — Joe Strummer
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager… — Frederic William Maitland
The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to… — Margaret Thatcher
Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut. — Unknown Author
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in… — Steven Erikson
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against… — Clarence Darrow
Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's… — Sri Yukteswar Giri

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