Keen Quotes

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)
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. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. View quote
Banksy
There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in the minds of men. View quote
Samuel Adams
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. View quote
Napoleon Hill
It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. View quote
Hugo Weaving
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. View quote
Ricardo Semler
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen. View quote
Valentina Tereshkova
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark. (Audrey Meadows)
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. View quote
Deborah Bull
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies
Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Nature, when planning this sterling fellow, shoved in a lot more lower jaw than was absolutely necessary and made the eyes a bit too keen and piercing for one who was neither an Empire builder nor a traffic policeman. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness. View quote
Orson Scott Card
This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher. View quote
Octave Mirbeau
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes! (Hannah More)
Live each day as if it were your last, and you'll develop a keen respect for opportunity. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Each time we love, We turn nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes. View quote
Alexander Smith
Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law. View quote
Yukteswar Giri
If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it. View quote
Hugo Weaving