Kafka, Franz : A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.
Kahlenberg, Richard D. : School vouchers are sold as a way for parents to handpick schools that reinforce values taught at home, but a democracy requires critical thinkers who are exposed to new ideas.
Kahlenberg, Richard D. : School vouchers are sold as a way for parents to handpick schools that reinforce values taught at home, but democracy requires critical thinkers who are exposed to new ideas.
Kaiser, Henry : Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Kaiser, Henry J. : Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Kant, Immanuel : Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.
Karr, Jean-baptiste Alphonse : Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has.
Karr, Alphonse : Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses
Karr, Alphonse : The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Karr, Alphonse : Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Karr, Alphonse : The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Karr, Mary : I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
Kauanui, Kehaulani J. : Racism is a system, not an event.
Kaur, Rupi : Our backs tell stories our books have no spine to carry.
Keach, Stacy : In reflecting on your past, don't obscure the future.
Keach, Stacy : In reflecting on your past, don't obscure the future.
Keats, John : A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Keller, Helen Adams : Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Keller, Helen : The highest result of education is tolerance.
Keller, Helen : The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Keller, Helen Adams : When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Keller, Helen Adams : Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Keller, Helen : Keep your face to the sunshine and you won't see the shadows.
Keller, Helen : Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Keller, Helen Adams : I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
Keller, Helen Adams : The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Keller, Helen : The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Keller, Helen Adams : Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
Keller, Helen : When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Keller, Helen : Keep your face to the sunshine and you won't see the shadows.
Keller, Helen Adams : We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Keller, Helen : Keep your face to the sunshine and you won't see the shadows.
Keller, Helen Adams : To be blind is bad, but it is worse to have eyes and not see.
Keller, Helen Adams : I believe that the welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
Keller, Helen Adams : Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Kelley, Emma Dunham : The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.
Kelley, David : Intuition ad creativity are informed by practice and diligence.
Kelley, David : Intuition ad creativity are informed by practice and diligence.
Kelley, David : Intuition ad creativity are informed by practice and diligence.
Kelly, Walt : We have met the enemy and he is us.
Kelly, Walt : We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Kelly, Walt : We have met the enemy and he is us.
Kelsey, Morton : What we assume - what we have never clearly thought out - controls us.
Kemp, Harry : The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
Kempis, Thomas A : And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.
Kenmore, Carolyn : If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
Kennedy, John F. : Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Kennedy, ‘flo’ : There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
Kennedy, John F. : Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Kennedy, Robert F. : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Kennedy, John F. : Language is an anonymous, collective, and unconscious art - the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Edward Sapir, U.S. anthropologist, linguist, 1884-1939Action: Better to light a candle than to sit and curse the dark.
Kennedy, John F. : The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.
Kennedy, Robert F. : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Kennedy, Flo : There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
Kennedy, Robert F. : Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Kennedy, John F. : Better to light a candle than to sit and curse the dark.
Kennedy, John F. : Civility is not a sign of weakness.
Kennedy, John F. : If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
Kennedy, John F. : We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
Kennedy, Robert F. : Some see things as they are and say: Why? I dream things that never were and say: Why not?
Kennedy, Rose : It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Kennedy, John F. : The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
Kennedy, John F. : The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Kennedy, John F. : Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Kerr, Clark : The three major administration problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
Kettering, Charles F. : No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Kettering, Charles F. : A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Kettering, Charles F. : Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Kettering, Charles F. : A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Kettering, Charles F. : Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Kettering, Charles F. : Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.
Key, Ellen : A child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Keyes, Ken : A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Khan, Hazrat Inayat : When the string of the violin was being tuned it felt the pain of being stretched, but once it was tuned, then it knew why it was stretched.
Khayyam, Omar : And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help - for it as impotently moves as you or I.
Khrushchev, Nikita : Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Khrushchev, Nikita : Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Kierkegaard, Soren : Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Kierkegaard, Soren : Life is to be lived forward but understood backward.
Kierkegaard, Soren : A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Kierkegaard, Soren : Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Kierkegaard, Soren : A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Kierkegaard, Soren : Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Kierkegaard, Soren : Once you label me you negate me.
Kierkegaard, Soren : Life is to be lived forward but understood backward.
Kierkegaard, Soren : Life is to be lived forward, but understood backward.
Kierkegaard, Soren : Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Kierkegaard, Soren : Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992Life: Life is to be lived forward, but understood backward.
Kimbrough, Emily : Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
King, Martin Luther : Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
King, Gayle : You never go wrong when you take the high road - it's less crowded up there.
King, Lily : Language actually interferes with communication . . . it gets in the way like an over-dominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else. Words aren’t always the most reliable thing.
King, Martin Luther : Riots are the voices of the unheard.
King, Martin Luther : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
King, Martin Luther : We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
King, Martin Luther : We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
King, Martin Luther : Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence, but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
King, Martin Luther : [We have] socialism for the rich and rugged free-market capitalism for the poor.
King, Martin Luther : Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
King, Martin Luther : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
King, Martin Luther : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
King, Martin Luther : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
King, Martin Luther : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he [sic] stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
King, Martin Luther : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
King, Martin Luther : The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
King, Martin Luther : We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
King, Martin Luther : Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
King, Martin Luther : A riot is the language of the unheard.
King, Martin Luther : We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
King, Martin Luther : There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
King, Martin Luther : War is the enemy of the poor.
King, Martin Luther : A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social upliftis is approaching spiritual doom.
King, Martin Luther : There is nothing...to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.
King, Martin Luther : The arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice.
King, Martin Luther : I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
King, Martin Luther : You can't legislate morality.
King, Martin Luther : The evils of free-market capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
King, Martin Luther : The Negro knows nothing of Africa [said to have been expressed with pain and distress]
Kirk, Ruth : Our moment on stage is so brief, but if you can be aware of the ingredients that make up the stage upon which you live your life, you can enjoy the dance of life ever so much more.
Klitzner, Ben : Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.
Knox, John : You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Knuth, Donald : The best practice is inspired by theory. The best theory is inspired by practice
Koestler, Arthur : Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Koestler, Arthur : The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
Koran, The : He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Kossuth, Lajos : It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Kossuth, Louis : Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Kozol, Jonathan : Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Kozol, Jonathan : Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Krauss, Lawrence M. : I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu : It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu : It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. (J.K. Rowling, British author, Born 1965Friendship: It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. (J.K. Rowling, British author, Born 1965Profiling: When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu : It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu : When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind.
Krutch, Joseph Wood : If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Krutch, Joseph Wood : When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal; when a man destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman.
Krutch, Joseph Wood : Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Krutch, Joseph Wood : Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Kubler-ross, Elisabeth : Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Kubler-ross, Elisabeth : People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Kubler-ross, Elisabeth : People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Kubler-ross, Elizabeth : Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Kubrick, Stanley : The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.
Kundera, Milan : The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
Kundera, Mian : The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Kupciinet, Irv : Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.
Kushner, Tony : Every student needs someone who says, simply, You mean something. You count.