Keeps People Quotes
29 quotes by 28 authors
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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven…
— Maya Angelou
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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
— George Mikes
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I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.
— Marc Maron
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The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
— Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
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What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.
— Anna Gavalda
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The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is…
— Paul MacCready
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The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed…
— Jesse Jackson
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As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal…
— Piri Thomas
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers.…
— Ann Patchett
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Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended.…
— Kofi Annan
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Options are good. Keeps people choosing.
— Craig Benzine
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Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.
— Edwin Newman
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I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.
— James Blunt
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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
— John Major
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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
— Harlan Ellison
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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time.…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.
— Darynda Jones
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Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the…
— Matthew Quick
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If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who…
— Zoot Sims
Who Wrote These Keeps People Quotes
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