Kept Quotes
2728 quotes by 1970 authors
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Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion…
— Flannery O'Connor
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They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it…
— Brian Kernighan
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These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check…
— Robertson Davies
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Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept…
— Qiu Jin
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I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated,…
— Pal Benko
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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes…
— Andre Breton
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Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes…
— Ken Wilber
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When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when we feel temptations…
— Josemaria Escriva
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We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins.…
— Thomas Paine
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I've been lucky to have some great opportunities acting with some great people since leaving Corrie, I have certainly been kept busy since leaving the…
— Unknown Author
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Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of…
— Dalai Lama
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I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of…
— George MacDonald
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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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To John Cena after the fans kept throwing his shirt back in the ring : They didn't throw my shirt back.
— CM Punk
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I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!
— Stewart Francis
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Oh, Brethren, what is the result of pride? Oh, see what humility can do? What was the need for all these sufferings? For, if from…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high. He came to…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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