Charles Kennedy Quotes

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

Charles Kennedy

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• To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!

  

  Randee Heller
  • Cinderella
  • Emmy

• Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Imagination

• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sea

• 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Creation

• Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Think
  • Ambition

• I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Passionate
  • Swimming

• Of all forms of symbolism, language is the most highly developed, most subtle, and most complicated. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Now, human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce

  

  S. I. Hayakawa

• I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes And eve made air the mirror of herself,Of her sons and of her daughters.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Father
  • Air
  • Mirror

• In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hussyn will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Age
  • Death
  • Sympathy

• Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions. Cruel men believe in a cruel God, and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

  

  Ariel Sharon
  • American
  • Model

• In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence - as not-bound to life.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life
  • Risk

• Right up until today Pollock her husband and famous painter; died Aug. 1956 well takes a lot of mine time.. ..and while you ask 'How much did it take out of me as a creative artist', I ask simultaneously, 'What did it give?' It is a two-way affair at all times. I would give anything to have someone giving me what I was able to give Pollock.

  

  Lee Krasner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Today

• I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Life
  • Up
  • High

• You either create something there on the street, or nothing happens. It's brutal. But if you go through that for two or three years, it really toughens you up.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Up

• I do not support a livable wage.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Support
  • Wage
  • Livable

• I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with me and kept me alive and around.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Music
  • Maturity

• You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and record a record is work, you know, arduous and unpleasant. Being able to write and record - that's a privilege. I don't forget the long days I spent working in a restaurant, when I wanted to be done so I could go home and work on a song.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• Ebola's a terrifying disease.

  

  Kent Brantly

• I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

  

  Charles Kennedy