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You know when you pray for something, you get it better than what you prayed for.
R. Kelly, 1998 Grammys

To be recognized like this, doing something you love to do, is a huge compliment, something that never gets old or unexciting.
Alison Krauss, 1998 Grammy winner

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.
Kevin Kelly

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
Helen Keller

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller

I would say 80% of women in Texas carry a confident air about them, which is really one of the most attractive qualities a women can have... and the most beautiful women I've seen have been in Texas. It's amazing.
David Kersh, country singer

If we have nothing to die for then we have nothing to live for.
Martin Luther King, jr.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
Garrison Keillor

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse (1880-1952)

The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind.
Martin Luther King, jr. (1928-1968), civil rights leader

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis isn't?
Irv Kupcinet

In a mad world only the mad are sane.
Akira Kurosawa

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller

People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958), inventor

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

It's important to be a go-getter. But it's even more important to know what it is you want to go and get.
Gary Kallback If we do what is necessary all the odds are in our favor.
Henry Kissinger

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life. Don't just show up at the game or office. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.
Joe Kapp, former football player/coach

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted, but getting what you have, which once you have got it, you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Garrison Keillor

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger

People say that what we're all seeking is the meaning of life... I think that what we are really seeking is the experience of being alive.
Rudyard Kipling

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes, jr., author

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't we?
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995), Kennedy family matriarch

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, jr.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), writer

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate results of your life.
Grenville Kleiser, writer

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist/author

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance.
Of course, I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
Kermit the Frog

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
J. Martin Kohe, psychologist and author

I believe life should be exciting all the time. There's no rule that says it can't be.
Gary Null and Vicki Riba Koestler

What you know is just a point of departure. So let's move!
Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African poet

Greatness comes with recognizing that your potential is limited only by how you choose, how you use your freedom, how resolute you are - in short, by your attitude.
Peter Koestenbaum, philosopher

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), philosopher

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Garrison Keillor

Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
Kalidasa (4th century), dramatist

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Ken Keyes (1921-1995), jr., writer

Everybody can be great... you only need a heart full of grace.
Martin Luther King, jr.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.
Harold S. Kushner, rabbi

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.
Grenville Kleiser (1863-1953), writer

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, jr.

People keep telling me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good one.
John F. Kennedy, jr. (1960-1999)

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats, poet

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th U.S. president

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King, Author

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Nikos Kazantskis (1883-1957), poet/novelist

Reason tells us that nothing can be good or bad simply because it is new. Everything good and everything bad was at one time new.
Krizhanich, Russian Roman Catholic priest, 17th century, supporter of Western culture

Don't wait for your 'ship to come in,' and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Irene Kassorla, psychologist

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Rudyard Kipling

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling-down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
E.L. Konigsburg, children's author

True creativity often starts where language ends.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), writer

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, diplomat

If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th U.S. president

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
J. Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy.
Billie Jean King

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Ellen Key (1849-1926), writer

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