“ A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
- 563
“ Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. ”
- Jeff Valdez- Copy
- 3.7K
“ He rides in the game like heavy cavalry getting into position for the assault. trots about, keenly watchful, biding his time, a master of tactics and strategy. ”
- Patrick Thompson- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
- 3.5K
“ There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. ”
- Nelson Mandela- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 526
“ It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. ”
- Samuel Adams- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Unexplained joy is always so keen that…it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ”
- Jessie B. Fremont- Copy
- 4K
“ There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. ”
- Alfred Hitchcock- Copy
- 1.3K
“ His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 2.6K
“ They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. ”
- Khalil Gibran- Copy
- 1.1K
“ They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. ”
- Barbara Hepworth- Copy
- 159
“ The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 906
“ If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. ”
- Marion Evans Cross- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world. But I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going. ”
- Sylvester Stallone- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 1.8K
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