Top 100 Quotes About Keyes
#1. The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?
Will Shortz
#2. If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
Maeve Binchy
#3. I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant." "Ah, repression," Keyes said. "Excellent. Try to avoid taking a potshot at me when you finally blow, please." "I can't promise anything, sir," Alan said.
John Scalzi
#4. Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.
Richard Lederer
#5. I've seen better coverage at an Alan Keyes press conference.
Dennis Miller
#6. Instructions for Adam
Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.
Jenny Downham
#7. Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced to the fact that Mans knowledge of himself has not kept pace with his knowledge of the physical world.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, "How are you feeling today, Tandy?" and I responded "I'm not
James Patterson
#10. It's war, you jackasses," Keyes snapped. "I'm sorry it's not terribly convenient or comfortable for you.
John Scalzi
#11. Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.
Willis Regier
#12. The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
Neel Mukherjee
#13. I'm glad I'm feeling this way. I'm really glad."
Dr. Keyes looked rather dismayed. "Really, sweetheart?"
"Yes. And I don't want to let it go. Not yet. I'm just starting to feel it. And it feels ... I don't know. Right, I guess. Maybe even ... good.
James Patterson
#14. Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#15. Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
Marian Keyes
#16. You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
Marian Keyes
#17. Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will then be able to enjoy whatever money you receive, but your happiness will not be contingent on the size of your bank account.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#18. I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself
Daniel Keyes
#19. Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.
Daniel Keyes
#20. The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
Marian Keyes
#21. Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.
Daniel Keyes
#22. If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect.
Marian Keyes
#23. The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.
Alan Keyes
#24. Some people can make their ears move - it's their party trick. Don't feel bad if you can't do it. Just find yourself another party trick.
Marian Keyes
#25. The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
Alan Keyes
#26. Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.
Marian Keyes
#27. I am a blade of silver, a sickle of ice - Assassin Ghe, old assassin mantra
Greg Keyes
#28. And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.
Marian Keyes
#29. Wake up, my guest /
You have slept long /
In the house of my ribs, /
The House of my heart /
Wake up now, /
See through my eyes, /
Walk with my feet, /
Yush, my old friend
Greg Keyes
#30. One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other ... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent.
Alan Keyes
#31. Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards.
(This Charming Man)
Marian Keyes
#32. She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven.
Marian Keyes
#33. When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#34. Three blind mice ... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt
They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving
knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three ... blind ... mice?
Daniel Keyes
#35. People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now ...
Ken Keyes Jr.
#36. I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.
Marian Keyes
#37. I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.
Daniel Keyes
#38. I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.
Daniel Keyes
#39. Then when you want free association, you could stretch your patient out the way the barber does to lather up his customer, and when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you've shaved his ego.
Daniel Keyes
#40. There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.
Alan Keyes
#41. He said, "Dance for me," and he said,
"You are too beautiful for the wind
To pick at, or the sun to burn." He said,
"I'm a poor tattered thing, but not unkind
To the sad dancer and the dancing dead.
Sidney Keyes
#42. Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.
Marian Keyes
#43. Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.
Marian Keyes
#44. No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.
Marian Keyes
#45. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#46. there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I
Daniel Keyes
#48. Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
Marian Keyes
#49. Sometimes distance improves love. Sometimes it dissolves it. I think you deserve to know which has happened.
Greg Keyes
#50. The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being
one of many ways
and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.
Daniel Keyes
#51. Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.
Marian Keyes
#52. Pushing too hard will only make things freeze up. How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
Daniel Keyes
#53. I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.
Marian Keyes
#54. You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.
Marian Keyes
#55. Time assumes another dimension now - work and absorption in the search for an answer.
Daniel Keyes
#56. We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.
Alan Keyes
#57. Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go.
Daniel Keyes
#58. I have an idea," Cazio said after a moment.
"What a lonely creature it must be.
Greg Keyes
#59. In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.
Alan Keyes
#60. It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting
that I discovered I was crying.
Marian Keyes
#61. Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#62. Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.
Daniel Keyes
#63. That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.
Daniel Keyes
#64. had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's
Daniel Keyes
#65. Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
Marian Keyes
#66. As soon as ... begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody.
Daniel Keyes
#67. I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent the people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it.
Alan Keyes
#68. I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.
Daniel Keyes
#69. I was always interested in the man of the moment - and there were so many such moments.
Evelyn Keyes
#70. To control one's own destiny takes a mastermind. To execute the plans takes a fool.
Daniel Keyes
#71. It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.
Daniel Keyes
#72. I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.
Daniel Keyes
#73. For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
Marian Keyes
#74. sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It
Marian Keyes
#75. Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty
Alan Keyes
#76. With their ship, the Horse, They ply the sea of grass, They stalk the walking mountains, With stones they make their beds.
Greg Keyes
#77. However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good, that they Haven't Helped, but only the passage of time will reveal just how bad they are.
Marian Keyes
#78. Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.
Alan Keyes
#79. Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.
Alan Keyes
#80. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
Daniel Keyes
#81. There is no question about it now. I'm in love.
Daniel Keyes
#82. The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie.
Daniel Keyes
#83. There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship. And I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.
Alan Keyes
#84. If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#85. I had thought the only person Neil loved was himself. That he probably shouted his own name when he was coming.
Marian Keyes
#86. There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
Alan Keyes
#87. To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#88. Todays uplifting phrase is love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only goning to get worse.
Marian Keyes
#89. Smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.
Marian Keyes
#90. We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.
Alan Keyes
#91. Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words
until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.
Alan Keyes
#94. It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
Alan Keyes
#95. Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you're not scared, you're not writing.
Ralph Keyes
#96. Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.
Daniel Keyes
#97. No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.
Marian Keyes
#98. The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.
Alan Keyes
#99. People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.
Daniel Keyes
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