Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is ...
DANIEL KEYES Time assumes another dimension now - work and absorption in the search for an answer.
DANIEL KEYES I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but als...
DANIEL KEYES I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence an...
DANIEL KEYES Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.
DANIEL KEYES I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve alw...
DANIEL KEYES Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and a...
DANIEL KEYES Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not ...
DANIEL KEYES Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short whil...
DANIEL KEYES There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."

--Charlie Gordan
DANIEL KEYES A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
DANIEL KEYES Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out...
DANIEL KEYES ...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because...
DANIEL KEYES Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever ...
DANIEL KEYES I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
DANIEL KEYES Why am I always looking at life through a window?
DANIEL KEYES Մարդիկ կարծում եմ, որ շատ ծիծաղելի է, երբ հիմարը չի կարո...
DANIEL KEYES When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you ma...
DANIEL KEYES That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.
DANIEL KEYES Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
DANIEL KEYES I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the ...
DANIEL KEYES I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wo...
DANIEL KEYES I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.
DANIEL KEYES My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a pri...
DANIEL KEYES ...but what they don't understand is that I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew ex...
DANIEL KEYES And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my ...
DANIEL KEYES I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others...waiting.
DANIEL KEYES Am I a genius? I don't think so. Not yet anyway. As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of edu...
DANIEL KEYES Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understa...
DANIEL KEYES The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her...
DANIEL KEYES No, you don't understand because it isn't happening to you, and no one can understand but me. I don'...
DANIEL KEYES Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world ...
DANIEL KEYES The feeling of cold grayness was everywhere around me-a sense of resignation. There had been no talk...
DANIEL KEYES Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here...
DANIEL KEYES You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you...
DANIEL KEYES I may not have all the time I thought I had...
DANIEL KEYES All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the l...
DANIEL KEYES Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to ...
DANIEL KEYES The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
DANIEL KEYES But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intel...
DANIEL KEYES Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
DANIEL KEYES Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.
DANIEL KEYES The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being s...
DANIEL KEYES I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and ...
DANIEL KEYES By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is ...
DANIEL KEYES My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.
DANIEL KEYES I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.
DANIEL KEYES I want to stop time, freeze myself at this level and never let go of her.
DANIEL KEYES So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being...
DANIEL KEYES I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I know...
EVELYN KEYES I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.
EVELYN KEYES I was always interested in the man of the moment - and there were so many such moments.
EVELYN KEYES I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra inst...
EVELYN KEYES I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.
EVELYN KEYES I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy ...
EVELYN KEYES Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when y...
MARIAN KEYES Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
MARIAN KEYES Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can b...
MARIAN KEYES Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding ...
MARIAN KEYES There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.
MARIAN KEYES Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will s...
MARIAN KEYES To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded atten...
EVELYN KEYES He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment t...
MARIAN KEYES Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till dea...
MARIAN KEYES He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.
MARIAN KEYES If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Mayb...
MARIAN KEYES Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still ...
MARIAN KEYES If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you
MARIAN KEYES As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.
MARIAN KEYES No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.
MARIAN KEYES I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it.
But then again, what were you going to do with y...
MARIAN KEYES Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.
Forget the laughs, forget the f...
MARIAN KEYES I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subcons...
MARIAN KEYES To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
KEN KEYES To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
KEN KEYES I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my con...
KEN KEYES I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.
MARIAN KEYES We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the F...
ALAN KEYES It isn't a free speech issue; it's a matter of public decency.
ALAN KEYES I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandelier...
MARIAN KEYES I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.
MARIAN KEYES Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most...
MARIAN KEYES we shouldn't substitute air power for cooperation.
ALAN KEYES Devereaux is going with our pitch.”
“Hey, that’s just great,” I said superperkily. “W...
MARIAN KEYES appeal tonight directly to every American.
ALAN KEYES For liberty, we need a respected judiciary. For the sake of preserving our liberty, we need to insis...
ALAN KEYES Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they...
ALAN KEYES When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were jus...
MARIAN KEYES The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax wa...
ALAN KEYES Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny.
ALAN KEYES Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?
MARIAN KEYES Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discove...
MARIAN KEYES Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never moc...
MARIAN KEYES ‎A careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude pic...
RICHARD KEYES The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate bat...
ALAN KEYES There is no virtue now in blind reliance / On place or person or the forms of love. / The storm bear...
SIDNEY KEYES Would you join me in repudiating that kind of racial slur, to apologize?
ALAN KEYES My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes ...
MARIAN KEYES We haven't gotten nasty at all,
ALAN KEYES Phony politicians get tripped up on their own words, revealing that their hearts are not with the st...
ALAN KEYES Some people want to pretend we don't have an adversarial political system, but we do, ... We should ...
ALAN KEYES I like you, George
ALAN KEYES reminder of the tragic consequences of the moral void that is threatening our young people.
ALAN KEYES I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stan...
ALAN KEYES This is the advantage of having a candidate knowing where he stands on the issues,
ALAN KEYES I think if G.W. Bush or (John) McCain or anybody like them, if they are the nominees, we're gonna ge...
ALAN KEYES The income tax is a slave tax,
ALAN KEYES I have to ask if that is an appropriate question to be asked, ... There are things I will tell my pr...
ALAN KEYES I have to ask if that is a question that is appropriate to be asked,
ALAN KEYES I don't think the question is whether China should belong to the World Trade Organization. I believe...
ALAN KEYES according to conscience and principle and nothing else.
ALAN KEYES When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give...
ALAN KEYES It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in t...
ALAN KEYES The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate bat...
ALAN KEYES Is this kind of pointless squabbling really what we want to see? We're talking about electing the pr...
ALAN KEYES You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!
GREG KEYES I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die...
ALAN KEYES I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I ...
MARIAN KEYES Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I ...
MARIAN KEYES I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around ...
MARIAN KEYES I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I ...
MARIAN KEYES My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film...
MARIAN KEYES I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never...
MARIAN KEYES Why am I here? It's because I'm the sentimental favorite,
ALAN KEYES I don’t want to be dead. I’m curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?
MARIAN KEYES mind her when I’m away?’ I stayed overnight in
MARIAN KEYES I click to buy it and I’m furious to discover that it’s not available in Ireland and they won’...
MARIAN KEYES This being human is a Guest House Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some...
MARIAN KEYES Worse, neither of us has liked any of the other’s Facebook posts, the modern equivalent of pistols...
MARIAN KEYES Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I’m forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even...
MARIAN KEYES why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which w...
MARIAN KEYES We've ended up putting in a lot more technician time than we anticipated — that's been a much bigge...
DAVID KEYES A couple of things are safe to say. From the community end, there's a demand for this kind of servic...
DAVID KEYES We've ended up putting in a lot more technician time than we anticipated — that's been a much bigge...
DAVID KEYES We've tried to redesign the defense a little bit.
DAVID KEYES We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, t...
ALAN KEYES Hard Wind
Sister with iron hooves
Together we shall travel steppes
that no man nor mo...
GREG KEYES With their ship, the Horse, They ply the sea of grass, They stalk the walking mountains, With stones...
GREG KEYES The reality of abortion isn't political at all. Women don't come in here and say, 'I want to exercis...
CLAIRE KEYES Our patients are not coming to, quote, 'exercise their constitutional rights'. They want to talk abo...
CLAIRE KEYES When members of the London Poetry Society asked Browning to interpret a particularly difficult passa...
RALPH KEYES We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government wi...
ALAN KEYES One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says h...
ALAN KEYES I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other ...
ALAN KEYES Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is...
ALAN KEYES Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our ...
ALAN KEYES It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it ...
ALAN KEYES I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I did...
MARIAN KEYES I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remembe...
MARIAN KEYES You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, ...
MARIAN KEYES What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
MARIAN KEYES I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.
MARIAN KEYES You have to know with whom you're dealing. Check them out, check their references, get a bill of sal...
LYNNE KEYES My point is to educate those who would have an interest in the field of autograph collection.
LYNNE KEYES I was hunting (for a hotel chain) which continually changes and upgrades its standards as the indust...
JOSEPH KEYES It really means with a name like Days Inn we will have a much better chance of bringing in business ...
JOSEPH KEYES The hotel is too big to fill it all with overnighters. We will lease out part of it.
JOSEPH KEYES The building is solid; the (prior) management was bad. The problem with the building from the outsid...
JOSEPH KEYES We expect to be open this Thursday.
JOSEPH KEYES There are like six of us that play on the same select team. We've been playing together for a long t...
JEANA KEYES We're doing really good. I expected us to come in here and beat everyone because we've been practici...
JEANA KEYES The interesting thing is we've got a lot of returnees, but not a lot of them have had seasons at the...
PAUL KEYES When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may...
MARIAN KEYES No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.
MARIAN KEYES But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the ...
MARIAN KEYES Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.
MARIAN KEYES In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on...
MARIAN KEYES The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move th...
MARIAN KEYES I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn'...
MARIAN KEYES In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on...
MARIAN KEYES Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.
MARIAN KEYES I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts abou...
MARIAN KEYES It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong on...
MARIAN KEYES No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't mana...
MARIAN KEYES Temporary Insanity had come a-knocking and I had shouted "Come on in the door is open." Luckily, Rea...
MARIAN KEYES when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may n...
MARIAN KEYES It's time for courage to be restored -- not by leaders like G.W. Bush, but by people like you.
ALAN KEYES No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condi...
KEN KEYES JR. You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.
KEN KEYES JR. Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
KEN KEYES JR. To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
KEN KEYES JR. When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ach...
KEN KEYES JR. I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my con...
KEN KEYES JR. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
KEN KEYES JR. Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Ev...
KEN KEYES JR. Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. E...
KEN KEYES JR A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you mee...
KEN KEYES JR. Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
KEN KEYES JR. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
KEN KEYES JR. Find the strength and confidence to conquer what you hide from; only then will you have the courage ...
MEAGAN ELIZABETH KEYES Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to...
FRANCES PARKINSON KEYES Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
KEN S. KEYES JR. No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condi...
KEN S. KEYES JR. I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now -- unless I am letting my consciousness be dominat...
KEN S. KEYES JR. When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''a...
KEN S. KEYES JR. Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Ev...
KEN S. KEYES JR. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you mee...
KEN S. KEYES JR. To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
KEN S. KEYES JR. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
KEN S. KEYES JR.