Kept Quotes

2728 quotes by 1970 authors

A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance. — Yasunari Kawabata
One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that… — Andrea Dworkin
A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless… — Thomas Gray
And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would… — Theodore Roethke
Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns… — Jimmy Breslin
I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is… — Steffi Graf
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few… — Steffi Graf
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people… — Miriam Makeba
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake. — Franz Boas
... we kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands… — Jimmy Page
... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top… — Eddie Van Halen
When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson… — Barney Kessel
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be… — David McCullough
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I… — James Frey
The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences… — Chalmers Johnson
I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole… — Adolfo Bioy Casares
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very… — Rudolf Hess
It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

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