Brendan Kennelly Quotes

If you want to serve the age, betray it.

Brendan Kennelly

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• So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Long
  • Energy

• The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Home
  • Peace

• It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Child

• Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Today
  • Song

• Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Reality

• These directors clearly failed to protect the interest of investors.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Protect
  • Directors
  • Investors

• The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Music
  • Today
  • Change

• Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Success
  • Decision
  • Failure

• With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only does The Dracula Dossier grip us with its fast paced hunt for history’s most notorious killer, it also enchants us with sophisticated and lyrical recreations of its unique period and strong characters. A daring achievement.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Novel
  • Readers
  • Gothic

• They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Bigs
  • Horrible
  • Masturbation

• I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stranger

• If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

  

  Confucius
  • Actions
  • Ill
  • Guided

• Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

  

  Archimedes
  • World
  • Place
  • Lever

• After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Almost

• Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Simple
  • Stories
  • Intelligent

• God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Reason

• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Chance
  • Hesitancy
  • Drawback

• If you want to serve the age, betray it.

  

  Brendan Kennelly
  • Serve
  • Betray