Kenneth Quotes

Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.

I am not a person who goes in the side of the many, because I prefer the side of the victor.

It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see.

Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.

He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.

ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage..

When the law fails to serve us, we must serve as the law.

How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?

All children think unkindly of their parents at some time or another

A Libertarian’s just a Democrat whose vote doesn’t count. Same thing.

But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.

The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or 'gets going'.

That’s the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we don’t have much of it for this, but it’s all I have in here.

You have to remember, William. It may make the difference between freedom and half a lifetime in prison.

Whattaya mean you ain’t no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.

Politicians are crooks!

I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.

Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by slowly & brutally strangling an innocent child?

You need three things in the theatre - the play the actors and the audience and each must give something.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding the chin in doubt and the chin at bay.

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

Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

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.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.

Any life truly lived is a risky business and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

People may ask "why do you laugh at simple things?" Tell them that why don't you? Life is too short to make it so miserable.

You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it.

When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!

We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.

It was like the beginning of the end of the world.

What’s the goal?” asked Carlos. “I’m glad you asked, ” said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we’re going to save the world.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.

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

I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.