Kent Davenport Quotes

If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~ Fred Kent

You have no idea," he says to me, "what it means to truly suffer. Sometimes I think you live in some fantasy land where everyone survives on optimism
but it doesn't work that way out here. In this world, you're either alive, about to die, or dead. There's no romance in it. No illusion. So don't try to pretend you have any idea what it means to be alive today. Right now. Because you don't. ~ Tahereh Mafi

We breathe love in and we breathe love out. It's the essence of our existence, the very air of our souls. ~ This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger

Clark Kent gives up his powers just to have sexual intercourse with Lois Lane in a glittery bed. Who'd make such a stupid swap? If you could fly? Deflect nuclear missiles into space? Turn back time by spinning the planet in reverse? Sexual intercourse can't be that good. ~ David Mitchell

Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local constabulary after he went round to complain about Luther Blisset's pet turkey fouling the communal herb garden. ~ St John Morris

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility. ~ Kent Beck

Is it me or is Bush going everywhere Kerry goes? So far in the past week, President Bush has followed John Kerry to Davenport, Iowa; New Mexico; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and he follows him to Portland, Oregon. The only place he never followed John Kerry was Vietnam. ~ Jay Leno

So much easier to give. I detest asking. ~ Kiana Davenport

I might have starved to death. I would be mud-slick, stuffed to the guts with cold and hopelessness, and my body might know it was doomed and give up on its own. That would be better than idly winding wool on a snowy day, waiting for someone to kill me. ~ Hannah Kent

Men like Crawford mistrusted Keynes because his views were unconfused. Throughout his life Keynes produced unimpeachable facts and figures, clear analyses, direct solutions and trenchant practical advice all based on the nitty-gritty of his subject, which were discounted by officials, politicians and bankers who dismissed him as academic, theoretical, quixotic, impractical. To them his clarity seemed too good to be true. ~ Richard Davenport-Hines

Once someone's dead, being sorry doesn't cut it. If you hit a man, you can apologize. If you destroy his property, you can pay him back. But if you take his life, there's nothing you can ever do to make that right. Do you understand? ~ William Kent Krueger

It's almost indecent," Mr. Kent said with a sigh.
"What is?"
"The way you look at each other. ~ Tarun Shanker

Because unrequited love is like a dead, useless organ. It's functionless. It's sicker than a disease. You can cure a disease, but you can't fix a defective soul. ~ Saffron A. Kent

Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering. ~ Jane Davenport Platko

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there. ~ Kent Haruf

Hovind said he was entering a not guilty plea 'under duress'. ~ Kent Hovind

If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't have to be afraid anymore. ~ William Kent Krueger

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with. ~ Maltbie Davenport Babcock

In large groups of enclosed people who were not allowed out, infectious diseases spread like wildfire. For example, in the 1880s in a workhouse in Kent, it was found that in a child population of one hundred and fifty-four, only three children did not have tuberculosis. ~ Jennifer Worth

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used. ~ Kent Conrad

Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes. ~ Dan Jenkins

People in their houses at night. These ordinary lives. Passing without their knowing it. Bid hoped to recapture something.
The officer stared at him.
The precious ordinary. ~ Kent Haruf

I cannot think of what it was not to love him. To look at him and realise I had found what I had not known I was hungering for. A hunger so deep, so capable of driving me into the night, that it terrified me. ~ Hannah Kent

He was telling war stories. The funny, innocuous ones that made everyone forget that war could leave you without fingers, or legs, or a soul. ~ Sabrina Fedel

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad. ~ Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Make time for prayer, meditation, and reflection. ~ Germany Kent

During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust. ~ Muhtar Kent

God's realm belongs to the childlike." - Jesus ~ Kent Smith

The evolution theory is one of the dumbest and most dangerous religion in history of humanity. ~ Kent Hovind

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it. ~ Corita Kent

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland. ~ Hannah Kent

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it. ~ Jack Kent Cooke

It's a lie. Man has created God out of fear of dying. ~ Hannah Kent

I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite. ~ Madison Davenport

Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under known options) is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence. ~ Kent Hovind

But you like it, don't you? You like me like this. You want me to take what I need. You want to be free with me, don't you? - Nash ~ M. Leighton