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  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    • Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
    (topic: responsibility)

  • John Keats
    • A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
    Its loveliness increases; it will never
    Pass into nothingness.
    (topic: beauty)

    I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
    (topic: imagination)

    The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.
    (topic: indecision)

  • Helen Keller
    • No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
    (topic: happiness)

    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.
    (topic: happiness)

    Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
    (topic: adventure)

    Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves--and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
    (topic: experience)

  • Yoshida Kenko
    • Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
    (topic: heart)

  • John F. Kennedy
    • I look forward to a great future for America--a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
    (topic: America)

    Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
    (topic: change)

    A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
    (topic: courage)

    The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
    (topic: imagination)

    If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
    (topic: poverty)

    Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
    (topic: prayer)

    I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy--"Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
    (topic: voting)

    The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
    (topic: voting)

    I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
    (topic: family)

    Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
    (topic: responsibility)

  • Elizabeth Kenny
    • Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
    (topic: medicine)

  • Jean Kerr
    • I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want--an adorable pancreas?
    (topic: beauty)

    Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
    (topic: marriage)

    Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself--like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
    (topic: men and women)

    You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
    (topic: poverty)

    The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
    (topic: morning)

  • Ellen Key
    • When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
    (topic: idealism)

  • Sĝren Kierkegaard
    • I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations--one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it--you will regret both.
    (topic: regret)

    At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
    (topic: enemies)

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
    (topic: America)

    Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
    (topic: hatred)

    A religion true to its natures must also be concerned about man's social conditions. Religion deals with both earth and heaven, both time and eternity. Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
    (topic: religion)

  • Rudyard Kipling
    • Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
    (topic: words)

  • Henry Kissinger
    • Power is the great aphrodisiac.
    (topic: power)

    Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
    (topic: moderation)

    The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
    (topic: fame)

  • Paul Klee
    • Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
    (topic: colors)

    Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
    (topic: creativity)

  • Charles Krauthammer
    • Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country--and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
    (topic: trust)

    This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
    (topic: september 2001 attacks)

  • Louis Kronenberger
    • There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
    (topic: atheism)

    Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
    (topic: vanity)

  • Joseph Wood Krutch
    • The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
    (topic: weather)

  • Maggie Kuhn
    • Old age is not a disease--it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
    (topic: age)

  • Milan Kundera
    • The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
    (topic: faces)

  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    • We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
    (topic: medicine)