Kenneth Quotes
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.
I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this.
The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.
The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.
Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.
Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.
One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse.
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached
Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.
A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.