Ben Keene quote: "The idea is to combine adventure travel with community development. I love adventure. I love travelling, but I don't want to do those things without having a positive impact on the people and the environment. I want to show you can be a responsible tourist and have the trip of a lifetime."

People will be making history on a tiny ripple of rock, jungle and sand in the south Pacific. It's n...
BEN KEENE

In late 2001, I contributed a short story called 'Castaways' to an anthology called 'In ...
BRIAN KEENE

This was snowboarding at its highest level. It was unbelievable.
BUD KEENE

'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set...
BRIAN KEENE

Most conservatives have been historically strong defense people, but have been reluctant to embrace ...
DAVID KEENE

George Bush is a conservative and most conservatives like him and support him. But most conservative...
DAVID KEENE

We came out a little timid, a little tentative. But (against Flanagan) we came out and told (the gir...
ZACH KEENE

We have 25 regular members who will donate for the live auction and 25 consignment members who will ...
BECKY KEENE

No, absolutely not. What I'm hoping is that they can find information to help them become better thi...
BECKY KEENE

It's going to keep us alive. That and our generous patrons.
BECKY KEENE

We'll be fine. I think it's just going to be very cold.
ANNE KEENE

The test can be given between March 1 and the 28. The only one date that is required is the direct a...
ANNE KEENE

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and t...
ANNE KEENE

That is one strategy to help prepare the students. A teacher might also tackle a specific section of...
ANNE KEENE

We want to make children more comfortable with taking the test. We are focusing a lot more on the wr...
ANNE KEENE

I've been astounded by Bush in his relationship with Republicans in Congress. In my lifetime, there ...
DAVID KEENE

The activist left is running this like their Spanish Civil War, dusting off all their weapons, seein...
DAVID KEENE

Fusion is all about integrating SOA technologies together. We want to establish Fusion Middleware as...
DAVID KEENE

I'm not surprised both of these guys were up on the podium, and Mason was in fourth. We had hoped to...
BUD KEENE

Big government conservatism is an oxymoron. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson built public housing. Now it look...
DAVID KEENE

Bush's compassionate conservatism has morphed into big government conservatism, and that isn't what ...
DAVID KEENE

I hope this wakes up the people who don't understand what this is all about. This is going to be on ...
BUD KEENE

We set some high goals. We wanted to sweep everything. We came really close. If Kelly had landed on ...
BUD KEENE

We just shook it out and got all the negative energy out.
BUD KEENE

The rescheduling threw us all off. Everyone was a bit groggy this morning, but the riding was unbeli...
BUD KEENE

I wouldn't say that they're gym rats. But there's an awareness that these things are important.
BUD KEENE

We're in the center ring now.
BUD KEENE

As much as we tried to downplay it, there was no denying the pressure. We talked about it.
BUD KEENE

We don't want this argument to be obscured by those who would suggest that anyone who is for more an...
DAVID KEENE

... When you died, you were supposed to live on in the memories of others. That's what I'd always be...
BRIAN KEENE

Conservatives throughout the United States are increasingly losing faith in the president and the Re...
DAVID KEENE

The one big strategic error -- which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportion...
DAVID KEENE

It's easy for me to establish an immediate rapport with riders ? I can hop in the pipe and ride, I'v...
BUD KEENE

We're in the heads of the other teams. We're coming in here like a freight train, and we scare the c...
BUD KEENE

Even though we pulled off an incredible sweep [in 2002], that wasn't predicted. Now that prospect ha...
BUD KEENE

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CAROLYN KEENE

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul...
BRIAN KEENE

Read, read, read. That's all I can say.
CAROLYN KEENE

No one would deny the government the power it needs to protect us all. But when that power poses a t...
DAVID KEENE

I've got to give credit to coach (Jim) Cole and the West Central Heat. It's tough to be a first-year...
ZACH KEENE

THEY AREN'T PATIENT. Hyundai has become a force in the U.S. to the point where they are forcing both...
DENNIS KEENE

The truth is that a very small number care very deeply about these issues, and they make for very go...
DENNIS KEENE

It wouldn't even be a race.
DENNIS KEENE

They would either have to say, 'I can't remember,' or, you know, they'd have to tell the truth,
DENNIS KEENE

I think the governor's finally admitted guilt, and he's hoping to move on,
DENNIS KEENE

Something needs to be offered to the river cities, ... I'm surprised they've been completely left ou...
DENNIS KEENE

Their argument is extremely dangerous in the long term because it can be used to justify all kinds o...
DAVID KEENE

We did free runs, nonstop. Just me and him. We just went snowboarding. We just went up, we made turn...
BUD KEENE

Again time elapsed.
CAROLYN KEENE

If they want the conservatives to play on their team, they have to treat them like members of the te...
DAVID KEENE

The electorate on which they depend is getting more and more frustrated. If turnout drops 1.5 percen...
DAVID KEENE

From now on, this administration will find it difficult to muster support on the right without expla...
DAVID KEENE

Her Second Amendment positions would lose her the primary in North Carolina unless she modifies them...
DAVID KEENE

I think the president has created political trouble for himself. She may turn out to be a great judg...
DAVID KEENE

If someone within your family is doing something that's certainly wrong, if not illegal, you have a ...
DAVID KEENE

Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has ...
DAVID KEENE

The kids are getting better and as long as they are getting better, I am happy.
CODY KEENE

It was great for our kids to face great competition.
CODY KEENE

I think these guys will be some of the guys who will score for us. But I know other guys will step u...
CODY KEENE

I like having a tough district because it brings the competitive nature out in these guys and that i...
CODY KEENE

They are working hard to gain strength and this year should be good for these guys because we will f...
CODY KEENE

We're not going to make it," I said.
The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Les...
BRIAN KEENE

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions...
DAVID KEENE

Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there ...
DAVID KEENE

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN

My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN

'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN

The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN

It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE

Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON

I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR

Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE

Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS

Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO

President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO

Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO

The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO

President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO

There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO

I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN

The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON

From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT

'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would...
BEN GOLDACRE

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK

Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
BEN BERNANKE

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK

We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JOHNSON

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN

There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY

This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON

It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON

A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
BEN FOUNTAIN

To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR

The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE

Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE

There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT

Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON

Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON

Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER

No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY

I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT

Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN

I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH

But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN

If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON

Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN

It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY

than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY

Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON

Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON

Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN

We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN

The idea is to combine adventure travel with community development. I love adventure. I love travelling, but I don't want to do those things without having a positive impact on the people and the environment. I want to show you can be a responsible tourist and have the trip of a lifetime.

Ben Keene

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