Eugene Kennedy Quotes
The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.
Quotes to Explore
-
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
-
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
-
Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
-
I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
-
I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
-
A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
-
Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
-
I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
-
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
-
When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
-
When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
-
The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.
-
We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.
-
I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.
-
Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.
-
Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
-
Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.
-
I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.
-
Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education.
-
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
-
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
-
Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.
-
The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.
