#s

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#displayed #favored #gods #graceful #hard

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#am #carry #change #effectiveness #i

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. ↗

— Sam Kinison

#i #married #terrorism #two #worry

How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing....except the gentleness of His touch. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#darkness #deception #faith #hope #life

Every hour of television that a person watches after the age of twenty-five, the researchers concluded, potentially snips twenty-two minutes off of the viewer's life span. ↗

— Gretchen Reynolds

#television #age

Terror must never be allowed as a means for political confrontation. ↗

— Klaus Kinkel

#confrontation #means #must #never #political

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#became #because #between #came #community

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#back #beirut #childhood #city #collapse

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#least #love #mind #never #our

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#only #poetry #profound #ridiculous #seems