Kept Quotes
2728 quotes by 1970 authors
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Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the…
— Steve Buyer
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This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another…
— Tim Maleeny
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If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at…
— Richard Armour
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
— Samuel Johnson
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We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.
— Bill Hicks
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I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention,…
— Rick Bragg
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Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.
— Leonard Michaels
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I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to…
— W G Sebald
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Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a…
— John Knox
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The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop…
— Winsor McCay
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She…
— Ann Richards
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The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not…
— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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The forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force.
— Unknown Author
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John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept…
— Albert Ayler
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For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
— Mary Lou Retton
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Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely…
— Calvin Coolidge
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On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came…
— Lee Smolin
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Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.
— Tim LaHaye
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