Keen Quotes

#1. Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC ... The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium ... which is why 'global warming' is now called 'climate change.'

Richard Keen

#2. There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.

Andrew Keen

#3. My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

Ian McEwan

#4. The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.

Terry Pratchett

#5. A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.

Ricardo Semler

#6. You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

Sam Keen

#7. I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.

Sean Bean

#8. We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

H.G.Wells

#9. Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.

Laura Ramirez

#10. Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Thomas Merton

#11. Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

Virat Kohli

#12. a certain consciousness of our entire past and our imagined future blends itself with all our moments of keen sensibility. And

George Eliot

#13. Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.

Terry Pratchett

#14. The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

Andrew Keen

#15. It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

J.M. Barrie

#16. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time. What

Herman Melville

#17. Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

Sam Keen

#18. The fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.

Naomi Mitchison

#19. ...theology waits as it works. It waits for its lungs again to be filled. Without the renewing breath of the Spirit it cannot speak.

Craig Keen

#20. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. We have inherited from our forefathers the keen
longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

Erwin Schrodinger

#22. If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

Sam Keen

#23. The loneliness in him was so keen that he was filled with terror. Usually he had a pint of bootleg white lightning. He drank the raw liquor and by daylight he was warm and relaxed.

Carson McCullers

#24. Trust what moves you most deeply.

Sam Keen

#25. I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.

Carmen Ejogo

#26. I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world,

Brett Lee

#27. Perhaps," Mg. Katter cut in, "she's finally gotten smart. In and out, job done."
Mg. Hughes said, "No. Not her." He paused. "She knows Emery is critical to the syndicate, they all do. He's personally invested in it. That, and she's always kept a . . . keen . . . interest in him.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#28. Fuck you.
I countered, demonstrating my keen skill at argument.

Julie Kenner

#29. O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

Robinson Jeffers

#30. You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

Sam Keen

#31. I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

David Bowie

#32. Readers and authors are both trapped and empowered by the logos

Mark O. Keen

#33. I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

Christine Lagarde

#34. A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.

Alexandra Stoddard

#35. The first part of emotional healing is being limbically known - having someone with a keen ear catch your melodic essence. (170)

Thomas Lewis

#36. The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

Sam Keen

#37. He is also a keen cook, gardener and birder. He has no middle fingers on one hand, so he can't swear but is permanently doing the heavy metal sign.

Alan Partridge

#38. We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, whether we seem centered or off course ... we need the nourishing company of others to create the circle needed for growth, freedom and healing.

Wayne Muller

#39. Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking.

Diana Gabaldon

#40. Shelley was an idol of mine
and many
an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.

Connie Stevens

#41. There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

Henry Ward Beecher

#42. At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

Deborah Bull

#43. I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.

James McAvoy

#44. I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

Gina Bellman

#45. Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will crumble, the trees die and rot, the gardens revert to weeds and grass, because all beauty will outlive the human intelligence which records, enjoys and celebrates it.

P.D. James

#46. I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

Will Rogers

#47. I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it's become one of my favorite genres.

Emma Donoghue

#48. An exploring mind is the most precious gift in life and it's very keen to learn without any judgmental eye.

Euginia Herlihy

#49. We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.

Andrew Keen

#50. The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Aeschylus

#51. I was not very keen on joining the family business ... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

Uday Kotak

#52. To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.

Sam Keen

#53. The poor soul would have been 100 - if he'd lived another twelve years. Apparently he asked to be scattered over the place where he spent his happiest moments - but Bridget wasn't keen no having ash all over her duvet.

Bridget Golightly

#54. Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#55. And your people tried to kill my best friend, so you'll forgive me if I'm not overly keen on learning the secret handshake."
She shook her head sadly. "You should be going on dates and hanging out at the mall. Not wearing stakes on your belt."
I shrugged one shoulder. "The mall sucks.

Alyxandra Harvey

#56. Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before.

Shane Filan

#57. When you've already been disappointed by the one person you're supposed to trust most in your life, you're not exactly keen on giving people any kind of ammunition over you.

Elle Kennedy

#58. At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.

Robert Dallek

#59. Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye.
'Odd name, Tom Skatt - eh?'
'Thats right'
'You don't think we could be related?'
Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled.
'I don't think so'
'No,' grinned Sir Henry no, of course not

Henry Chancellor

#60. The world is run largely by urban, sedentary males. The symbol of power is the chair.

Sam Keen

#61. wisdom must lie in a keen self-loathing.

Morrissey

#62. I was offered a few shows, but the money didn't work out, but I'm not very keen on judging such shows. I'm happy in my space as a composer.

Pritam Chakraborty

#63. Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

Cordell Hull

#64. We're all Hitler inside. We're all Christ inside. I'm not keen on the idea, but it's true, isn't it? We've all got a little bit of the devil in us.

Jason Jack Miller

#65. She would not risk to grow so fond of her home that it was a pain to leave it; she preferred to remain a wayfarer, sauntering through life with a heart keen to detect beauty, and a mind, open and unbiased, ready to laugh at the absurd.

W. Somerset Maugham

#66. To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

Sam Keen

#67. The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about.

Janny Wurts

#68. Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Nelson Mandela

#69. I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

Stephen Mangan

#70. Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

Andrew Keen

#71. Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!

Ezra Pound

#72. I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

Jim Jefferies

#73. Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

Dan Stevens

#74. Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#75. She was still looking; I could pass as an Indian I thought. I
was part Indian too and that was the precaution I was taking from
getting mugged, a fact which I vehemently fought against back
home and was keen to adopt here. Gosh, I was a rotten hypocrite.

Dixy Gandhi

#76. The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible.

William Shakespeare

#77. Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight; I'm happy to be the exception.

Rebecca Makkai

#78. Economics is too important to leave to the economists.

Steve Keen

#79. It was not that he lacked values, but he had a keen sense that at times the ends justified the means, and an equally keen sense of his own interests. There

Michael Lewis

#80. I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.

P.D. James

#81. My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off ... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves ...

Warren G. Harding

#82. When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#83. My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Alexander McCall Smith

#84. Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?' ... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

Sam Keen

#85. After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Latrivia S. Nelson

#86. Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

Lucretius

#87. At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

F. Sionil Jose

#88. The only ones untouched by the keen madness of the times were the children and the dogs. And the dogs seemed a little nervous.

Daniel Abraham

#89. I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform. I was not just keen on that, it was during that time, during the school period then from an early age, that I began to dream about acting.

George Ogilvie

#90. He dared not love again and lose. That loss was too great, that pain too keen.

William Peter Blatty

#91. parents might not be keen on the idea of seeing each other, but then essentially

Emily Giffin

#92. In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

Swami Vivekananda

#93. To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

W. H. Auden

#94. I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

David Bowie

#95. No, thanks, we're not keen on cat pix.

Ira Levin

#96. I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#97. When times are rough and people predict the end of the world, remember that short-term uncertainty provides to the keen investor many long-term opportunities

Amir Avitzur

#98. I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

John Buchan

#99. Lost his mind, he has, Wolfe said. "Keen observation, Yoda," I said.

Robert J. Crane

#100. Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

John Stott