Jon Kabat-Zinn
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Janos Kadar
Which is more terrible in a man's life? To be made to suffer by one's friends or by one's enemies?
Ismail Kadare
You cannot call a country conquered until you have conquered its Heaven.
('The Siege')
Franz Kafka
There are possibilities for me; but under what stone do they lie?
Love is as simple as a car. The problem is only the driver, the passengers and the street.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Retain the ability to recognise beauty and you'll never grow old. There is a goal, but there is no way. What we call a way is only hesitation.
The tremendous world I have inside my head! But how to free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.
Frida Kahlo
I love you more than my own skin.
Otto Herman Kahn
The deadliest enemy of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Wassily Kandinsky
Objects damage pictures.
The contact between the acute angle of a triangle and a circle has no less effect than God's finger touching Adam's in Michelangelo.
Immanuel Kant
Thinking is talking with yourself.
Conscience is the knowledge of an internal highcourt.
Laziness is the tendency to rest without preceding labour.
Three things help to bear the misery of life: Hope, Sleep and Laughter.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
The law must never be tailored to the politics, but the politics to the law.
Who degrades himself to a worm must not complain to be trodden upon.
Unscrupulousness is not the lack of scruples but the trend to ignore them.
You can easily look through a man, but a woman never gives her secret away.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Herbert von Karajan
Fanaticism is the highly explosive mixture of ignorance and energy.
Hans Kasper
Loudspeakers amplify the voice, but not the argument.
Erich Kästner
One can either live or be consistent.
Only who grows up and remains a child is a human.
Think of the fifth commandment: don't kill your time!
I believe in common sense like in a miracle. But common sense forbids me to believe in miracles.
The conscience is able to call injustice just, the Inquisition for God beneficial and murder politically worthy. The conscience can be turned 18o degrees.
Adnan Kashoggi
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Natasha Kassam
Growing power is meeting growing resistance.
Max Kauffman
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
Kenneth Kaunda
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Danny Kaye
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Elia Kazan
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Matt Kean - (Treasurer NSW/Australia)
We'll be using our budget to support the economy, not using the economy to support the budget.
Paul Keating
Politics is the conflict business.
If you change the Prime Minister you change the country.
In the prime ministership is vested the ideal of the nation and its aspirations.
When you get into public life, you jump on your bike and you pedal like buggery.
Leadership isn't about doing what's popular, leadership is about doing what's right.
John Keats
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
Charles F.Keetering
My interests is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Gottfried Keller
It is healthier to hope and do the possible than to dream and do nothing.
Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Alone we can do so little - together we can do so much.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Blindness separates us from things, deafness separates us from people.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Lord Kelvin (President Royal Society, 1895)
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Kristina Keneally
I believe I have found in my life that when God shuts the door, she opens a window.
Thomas Keneally
God may well be honoured by the inflexibility of the pious, but he might also be honoured by the flexibility of the sensible. (Schindler's List)
John F.Kennedy
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Success hinges on a passion for excellence.
Things don't just happen - they are made to happen.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Victory has a hundred fathers, and defeat is an orphan.
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negeotiate.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
Every president must endure the gap between what he would like and what is possible.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to life. Our objective must be to add new life to those years.
Don't let your sons grow up to be President. Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Robert Kennedy
In every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
Johannes Kepler
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Phil Kerby
Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second.
Jack Kerouac
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
Hermann Kesten
Progress in medicine is so enormous one can't be sure of death any more.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian
A physician's duty is not just to extend life, it is to end suffering.
John Maynard Keynes
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?
The inevitable never happens. It is the unexpected always.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Khin Nyunt (General in Burmese army)
Martial law is no law at all.
Nikita Khrushchev
When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Soren Kierkegaard
Hate is the love that has failed.
To love another person is to help them love God.
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Greatness doesn't mean to be this or that, but to be one self.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
To compare means the end of happiness and the beginning of dissatisfaction.
One can be wrong in two ways. By believing what is not true. Or by refusing to believe what is true.
It seems man didn't get the faculty of speech to hide his thoughts, but rather to hide that he doesn't have any.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.
The more people believe in something, the greater the probability that this something is wrong. People who are right usually stand alone.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Jimmy Kimmel
First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!" Second Guy : "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
Charles Kindleberger
There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgement as to see a friend get rich.
Billie Jean King
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Martin Luther King jr.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Whatever affects one directly affect all indirectly.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
The old rule of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The best leaders don't grow on placid ground, but in demented lands… ('The Siege')
We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.
It may be true that the law can’t change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.
We must rapidly begin ... the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in the moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
We are called to be people of conviction, not conformity; of moral nobility, not social respectability. We are commanded to live differently and according to a higher loyalty.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Creativity is the road out of misery.
Sixty's the new 50, and dead is the new alive.
In writing as in sex, the best advice is to relax and let nature take her cause.
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Sam Kinison
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
Michael Kinsley
A gaffe occurs when a political figure accidentally tells the truth.
Rudyard Kipling
No-one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Michael Kirby (Australian judge)
The rule of law is the alternative model to the rule of terror, the rule of money and the rule of brute power.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
History is a better guide than good intentions.
Tony Kirwan
Robbing a child of their destiny is like stealing history before it is written.
As we endeavour to end the wrongs we mustn't forget to do what's right.
Henry Kissinger
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerilla wins if he does not lose.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
[The] American temptation [is] to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Paul Klee
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Joe Klein
(Neoconservatism is) unilateral bellicosity cloaked in the utopian rhetoric of freedom and democracy.
Naomi Klein
Crises test us.
Heinrich von Kleist
A free thinking person doesn't stand still wherever chance has placed him.
Happy people do more foolish things than sad ones; but the sad ones do them larger.
Andrew Kloster
You can learn policy. You can't learn loyalty.
L.R.Knost
It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
Matthew Knott
The moral high-ground is no place to be if it limits your ability to nudge the world in a better direction.
F.M. Knowles
There is nothing so pathetic as a forgetful liar.
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
Dr. Marianne Koch
Fighters simply age better.
Robert Koch
Cause follows effect when a doctor follows the coffin of a patient.
Klaus Kocks
Good journalists are what Americans call a pain the arse.
The Koran
‘To you be your religion; to me my religion'
Michael Korda
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Josh Korman
Plastic surgeons can operate on the ears, but not on what's between the ears.
Raisa Orlowa Korpolew
What right do I have to regard my own suffering as the greatest?
Wolfgang Korruhn
For me a train is the symbol of life: one sits quietly and yet, it goes forward fast.
Christine Korsgaard
It is a pain to be in pain. And that is not a trivial fact.
There is no morally justifiable way to ignore the suffering of other beings, whether human or non-human.
Our tendency to emphasise intelligence as the basis of moral concern ignores the reality of animal suffering and emotion.
Barrie Kosky
Innovation only comes from a knowledge of tradition.
The theatre curtain is a form of eyelid, which shuts and opens and reveals, transforms.
Bernard Kouchner (Médecins Sans Frontières)
To whom belongs the suffering of people? To the rest of the world. For that we have to yell and make noise and attract attention.
Karl Kraus
Progress celebrates victories over nature.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
A woman is only truly beautiful who can acknowledge being ugly.
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Charles Krauthammer
Decline is a choice.
Michelle de Kretser
Which comes first, the future or the past? ('Scary Monsters')
Krishnamurti
Meditation is not a means to an end, it is both the means and the end.
Irving Kristol
Neocons are liberals who have been mugged by reality.
The unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.
Hans Kruppa
Who lives in the land of love hates to travel.
Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
Not everything on the internet is true. Most of it is as reliable as a drunk guy at the pub.
We already have all the technology needed to stop and reverse climate change. We just need different politicians.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden,
But you will grow if you are sick,
If you are in pain, if you experience losses,
And if you do not put your head in the sand,
But take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.
Stanley Kubrick
The best education in film is to make one.
Danya Kukafka
The right kind of love will eat you alive. (‘Notes on an Execution’)
Pity is destruction wearing the mask of sympathy. (‘Notes on an Execution’)
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. (‘Girl in Snow’)
No one is all bad. No one is all good. We live as equals in the murky gray between. (‘Notes on an Execution’)
Kamal Kumar
If I were God all my angels would look like you.
Milan Kundera
The longing for paradise shows the human wish not to be human.
Hari Kunzru
Englishness is sameness, and the comfort of repetition. (‘The Impressionist')
Akiro Kurosawa
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Sebastian Kurz
Whether you like it or not, it's the people who decide.
Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land