Keeping Quotes
2075 Keeping quotes by 1572 unique authors
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I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above…
— Sylvia Plath
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Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
— Sara Gruen
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I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to…
— Kate Bornstein
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Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
— Jennifer Weiner
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Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged?…
— Jerry Spinelli
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My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. "We…
— Janet Evanovich
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what…
— Walter Scott
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Huh - Why is Max in the kitchen?" Dr.Martinez: "We're cooking." Gazzy: "She's just keeping you company, right?" Dr.Martinez: "No, she's cooking." Nudge: "Cooking...food?" Max:…
— James Patterson
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Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on
— Bob Dylan
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Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can…
— Julia Cameron
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It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different
— Simone Elkeles
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That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as…
— Thomas Paine
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Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their…
— Jim Butcher
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What’s the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it’s for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Anyway, I'm sure the guy lives a million miles away." "Or he could live right in your backyard. You never know." I nodded, keeping a…
— Mari Mancusi
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Keeping pushing, Andrei, and you and I are going to play a game. (Esperetta) And what game is that, Princess? (Andrei) Find the Ball in…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The way everyone looked at me made me uncomfortable. Even Edward. It was like I had grown a hundred feet during the course of the…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it.…
— Jean Cocteau
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here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the…
— E E Cummings
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This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.
— Anna Quindlen
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The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place…
— Warren Ellis
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At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing…
— Shonda Rhimes
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
— Patrick Ness
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not keeping a promise is the same as lying!
— Eric Jerome Dickey
Who Wrote These Keeping Quotes
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