Authors by Name: K
Franz Kafka (12)
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
218 quotes relating to beauty
Meir Kahane (4)
The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.
233 views about being alone
Frida Kahlo (5)
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
233 more views about being alone
Henry J. Kaiser (3)
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
364 quotes about best
Immanuel Kant (13)
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
174 more wisdom & wit about experience
Herbert Kaufman (3)
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
161 more thoughts regarding courage
Danny Kaye (3)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.
423 other quotes regarding greatness
Nikos Kazantzakis (7)
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
218 other quotes about beauty
John Keats (19)
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
425 other quotes regarding art
Arthur Keith (2)
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
420 other wisdom & wit relating to nature
Helen Keller (31)
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
233 wisdom & wit regarding being alone
DeForest Kelley (2)
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
38 other sayings relating to fatherhood
Frank B. Kellogg (3)
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
175 quotes about change
Thomas a Kempis (12)
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
58 other views about anger
Edward Kennedy (3)
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
38 quotes regarding fatherhood
John F. Kennedy (46)
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
249 quotes regarding aging
Corita Kent (2)
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
427 other views regarding life
Charles Kettering (11)
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
198 thoughts about business
Black Kettle (3)
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
179 quotes relating to friendship
Ellen Key (4)
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
425 quotes about art
John Maynard Keynes (10)
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
210 sayings about education
Omar Khayyam (2)
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
345 more quotes relating to happiness
Nikita Khrushchev (5)
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
79 thoughts regarding food
Soren Kierkegaard (22)
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
175 more sayings about change
Richard King (5)
I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.
8 views regarding graduation
Martin Luther King, Jr. (41)
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
425 quotes relating to art
Coretta Scott King (4)
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
199 more sayings regarding freedom
Charles Kingsley (6)
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
218 quotes relating to beauty
Rudyard Kipling (12)
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
233 views about being alone
Frank Knox (2)
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
87 other sayings relating to family
Arthur Koestler (4)
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
425 quotes about art
Jiddu Krishnamurti (9)
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
26 other quotes about fame
Ray Kroc (5)
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
79 other wisdom & wit relating to food
Louis Kronenberger (3)
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
249 sayings about aging
Joseph Wood Krutch (7)
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
218 quotes regarding beauty
Stanley Kubrick (2)
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
199 quotes about freedom
Maggie Kuhn (3)
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
249 other quotes regarding aging
Charles Kuralt (8)
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
175 more quotes regarding change