Keeping Quotes
2075 quotes by 1572 authors
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I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with…
— Michael Phelps
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The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with…
— Isak Dinesen
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I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of…
— Yukio Mishima
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You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you…
— Robert Musil
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
— William Hazlitt
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I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping…
— John Donne
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Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.
— Pete Rose
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This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us…
— Richard M. Nixon
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And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…
— Samuel Adams
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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and…
— Stephen Covey
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The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most…
— James Madison
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I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who…
— H. L. Mencken
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."
— Gore Vidal
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Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Keeping Quotes
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