Keeping Quotes

2075 Keeping quotes by 1572 unique authors

Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy. — C.S. Lewis
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. — Walter Dean Myers
If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but… — Thomas Merton
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,… — Albert Einstein
The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all. — Clive Barker
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do… — Mitch Albom
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine,… — Aldous Huxley
I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe… — Barack Obama
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. — Djuna Barnes
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the… — Oscar Wilde
By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men… — C.S. Lewis
I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance,… — Christine Feehan
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything. — Nhat Hanh
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the… — A. J. Jacobs
We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get… — Ken Kesey
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is… — Lyall Watson
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every… — Jane Austen
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… — Anne Lamott
I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as… — Eoin Colfer
instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves,… — Sarah Dessen
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye… — Milan Kundera
In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise. — Graham Greene
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced… — Wendell Berry
We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather,… — Milton Friedman

Who Wrote These Keeping Quotes

1,572 authors contributed a total of 2,075 Keeping Quotes, led by these top contributors: