Kenneth Quotes

A person may forget 90% of what a leader says, but he will never forget how the leader lives.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

All color is no color.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

In war is it who's right, or who's left?

People have a whole lot more choices than they've had in the past, and I have only earned the right to be considered - every day I have to earn the right to be chosen.

I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes.

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.