Keeps Quotes

2761 quotes by 1951 authors

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more… — Gloria Naylor
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. — William Cowper
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention. — William Cowper
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? — Rainer Maria Rilke
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. — Thomas Paine
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in… — Socrates
A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to… — Twyla Tharp
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in… — Vincent Van Gogh
Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all… — Joan Didion
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels. — Christian Morgenstern
But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be… — Prince Philip
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and… — Aaron Copland
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She… — Alice Meynell
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin
If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your… — Clint Eastwood
Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not? — Lester Piggott
It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need. — Byron Katie
One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over. — Bruce Nauman
Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross — Johnny Mathis
Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving. — Eric Maisel

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