Keeping Quotes
2075 Keeping quotes by 1572 unique authors
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They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific…
— Michael Crichton
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My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
— Oscar Wilde
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If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask…
— Yann Martel
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Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention,…
— Andrea Camilleri
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At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as…
— George Clooney
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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
— Margaret Atwood
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Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years.…
— Carl Sandburg
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
— William P. Young
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Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and…
— Mike Yaconelli
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If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Am I a vampire?" Massie asked. "Huh?" Alicia asked. "Then why are you keeping me in the dark?
— Lisi Harrison
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Give me the gun." Ranger said. I extracted the gun from my pants and handed it over. Ranger held the gun in the pulm of…
— Janet Evanovich
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Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
— Michel Foucault
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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal…
— Thomas Merton
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The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible!…
— Diane Duane
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Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her…
— Thomas Hardy
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those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration…
— William P. Young
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What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." Rogerson did,"…
— Sarah Dessen
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Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.
— Tanya Huff
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As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog’s big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an…
— J R Ward
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She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only…
— Libba Bray
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He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do…
— Karen Chance
Who Wrote These Keeping Quotes
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