Keeping Quotes

2075 Keeping quotes by 1572 unique authors

As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type;… — Victoria Moran
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground… — Howard Thurman
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of… — Elwyn Brooks White
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and… — Henry David Thoreau
One is always nearer by not keeping still, — Thom Gunn
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time,… — Robert Frost
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in… — John F. Kennedy
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's… — Michel de Montaigne
If I had a reality show, it would probably be called 'Keeping Fit with Jesse Tyler Ferguson' because then I'd be forced to hit the… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either… — Oscar Wilde
These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored. — Langston Hughes
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath… — Henrik Ibsen
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. — Mahatma Gandhi
Being generous without keeping score strengthens your spirit, keeps you focused on the people who make your business what it is, and helps breed success. — Brandon Steiner
Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You… — Samuel Johnson
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone… — Quentin Crisp
Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to… — Andy Warhol
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others… — Diana Trilling
Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day… — Ray Floyd
Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them. — Hannah Arendt
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader — Lionel Trilling
Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well. — Tim Daly
Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take… — Holly Near
Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do. — John McAfee

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