Kept Quotes
2728 quotes by 1970 authors
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Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole…
— Louis Bromfield
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I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would…
— Aristotle Onassis
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The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad…
— Dennis Wilson
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We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here and rekindle the…
— Ronald Reagan
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It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect…
— James Madison
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of…
— Augustus Hare
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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
— E. W. Howe
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For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.…
— Hilaire Belloc
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[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a…
— James Madison
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;…
— John Updike
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The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those…
— James Madison
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them…
— Winston Churchill
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Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one
— Cassie Ventura
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Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.
— Bethany Hamilton
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I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something,…
— Paul Simon
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed…
— Garrison Keillor
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What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where…
— Wilhelm II
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I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't…
— Jon Hamm
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