Best Keenly Sayings
78 Keenly quotes by 74 unique authors
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
— Alice Walker
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I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life…
— Steven Pressfield
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Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest…
— Albert Einstein
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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
— John Irving
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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio,…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware…
— Malika Oufkir
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There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt…
— Shannon Hale
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The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which…
— Lord Byron
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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In…
— Oscar Wilde
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library…
— Neal Shusterman
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Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous…
— Gail Carriger
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Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if…
— Alice Munro
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True love cannot die,'" Will said, translating the inscription on the back in the light from the corridor. "I can't wear this, Magnus. It's too…
— Cassandra Clare
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I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women…
— Stendhal
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We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.
— Grant Hill
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In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood…
— Jamie Johnson
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As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how…
— James Nesbitt
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