Keeping Quotes
2075 Keeping quotes by 1572 unique authors
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The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and…
— David Sedaris
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And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]
— E E Cummings
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The mighty have such simple weaknesses. I like to think it’s God’s way of keeping things fair.
— Julie James
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
— Anthony Trollope
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another…
— Ann Brashares
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Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and…
— Cornelia Funke
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Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary,…
— Mercedes Lackey
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As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is…
— Kristin Hannah
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He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking…
— Douglas Coupland
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Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected.…
— Joss Whedon
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But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our…
— Sarah Dessen
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pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly, and if left unresolved you can almost forget that…
— William P. Young
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Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.
— Kate Morton
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It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see…
— Jim Butcher
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A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks…
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all…
— George Eliot
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I have been keeping track of the boy with the bread.
— Suzanne Collins
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God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that…
— J.P. Moreland
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The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins-…
— Jonathan Stroud
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And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Keeping you safe keeps me in shape.
— Ilona Andrews
Who Wrote These Keeping Quotes
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