Keep Quotes
18736 quotes by 8759 authors
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To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.
— Minor White
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I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that…
— Orson Scott Card
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But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.
— Bob Dylan
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
— Uta Hagen
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My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep…
— Lynn Johnston
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Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations…
— Eugene V. Debs
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye…
— Chinua Achebe
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Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes…
— Anita Desai
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We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
— Carl Jung
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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments,…
— Jerzy Grotowski
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Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this…
— Karl Marx
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The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing,…
— Martin Heidegger
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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I…
— Michel Foucault
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Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that…
— Hannah Arendt
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Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.
— Tim Howard
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And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors,…
— Thucydides
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Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep…
— Polybius
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
— Augustus
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