Kept Quotes

2728 quotes by 1970 authors

Time is the best kept secret of the rich. — Jim Rohn
I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven… — Barbara Hambly
The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd… — David M. Brown
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen… — Sinclair Lewis
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.'… — J D Salinger
Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that… — Wangari Maathai
You can replace houses. You can't replace people. I mean, it's left me speechless. I was talking to P.J. (Brown) about it. When the storm… — Chris Paul
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed,… — Sherman Alexie
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms… — Walter Bagehot
Michael Jordan told me the way he kept the crown was by always outworking everyone else because he knew everyone was always coming after him.… — Alex Rodriguez
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the… — Barbara Tuchman
Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn't just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget that today. What… — George H. W. Bush
The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless… — John W. Gardner
If you desire to find the true spirit of Christmas and partake of the sweetness of it, let me make this suggestion to you. During… — Howard W. Hunter
When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front… — Jeff Dunham
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed. — Heraclitus
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who… — Robertson Davies
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But… — Grete Waitz
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. — Pearl S. Buck

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