Kept Quotes

2728 quotes by 1970 authors

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague… — George Orwell
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the… — Samuel Adams
Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced to the fact… — Kurt Vonnegut
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of… — Ida B. Wells
The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up. — James Boswell
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. — Jacques Barzun
Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage. — Plutarch
No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who… — Malcolm Lowry
I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful — Thom Yorke
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop. — Michelangelo
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. — Herman Melville
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews. — Ahad Ha'am
More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel. — Ahad Ha'am
I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that… — Andrew Carnegie
Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was… — Joe Frazier
I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I… — Rocky Marciano
In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color… — Jeremiah Wright
The challenges I have facedâ€”among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single motherâ€”are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me… — Sonia Sotomayor

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