Keeping Quotes
2075 Keeping quotes by 1572 unique authors
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As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his lap. Shushing her,…
— Kristin Cashore
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He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of…
— Lauren DeStefano
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.
— Orson Scott Card
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While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping…
— Bell Hooks
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Hermes's shoulders sagged. "They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we…
— Rick Riordan
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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I grab Sarah’s hand. “You are more than that. I need you here with me. You’re pretty much the only thing keeping me from completely…
— Pittacus Lore
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Let's just hug already," he says. Keeping one hand firm on Caleb's arm, I wrapped my free arm around Zeke, and he does the same.…
— Veronica Roth
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I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I- I don't..." His…
— Rick Riordan
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That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but…
— Donna Tartt
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We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not…
— Brené Brown
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One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to…
— Alice Miller
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Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as…
— Gustave Eiffel
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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
— Stephen Covey
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We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
— Winston Churchill
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in…
— John Maynard Keynes
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There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.
— Henry Van Dyke
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One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual…
— Jimmy Carter
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Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.
— Georgi Plekhanov
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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
— Julian of Norwich
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I…
— Julian of Norwich
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There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
— Duke Ellington
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We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter…
— Mark Twain
Who Wrote These Keeping Quotes
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