Keeping Quotes

2075 Keeping quotes by 1572 unique authors

All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it.… — Mark Twain
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him… — Oscar Wilde
So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe. — John Green
Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk… — Julio Cortazar
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. — David Hume
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion. — Barbara Mertz
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being… — Robert A. Heinlein
no' when no one answered, Derek looked from face to face, then settled his glower in me. 'absolutely not.' 'um, I was the one keeping… — Kelley Armstrong
How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts… — Sue Monk Kidd
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form… — Malcolm X
I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and… — Jordan Sonnenblick
If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away… — John Newton
There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left… — Robert Green Ingersoll
On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached… — Jim Carroll
Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a… — M. Russell Ballard
As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon...So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then… — Sarah Dessen
You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'' "No time. I have enough… — Richelle Mead
Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words… — Dr. Seuss
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have… — Adam Phillips
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few… — Eric Hoffer
Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. — Cynthia Lord
The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden… — Brennan Manning

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