Kept Quotes

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A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going. — James Levine
Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades. — Olga Broumas
Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up… — Alan Sillitoe
Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept. — Swami Vivekananda
You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You… — Junot Diaz
The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered… — Hernando Cortes
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that… — Robert Grosseteste
In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure — Tom Franklin
When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself… — Willie Morris
Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going. — Art Linkletter
All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving… — Bernardino Ramazzini
I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That… — Charles R. Swindoll
It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what… — Helen Mirren
Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer. — Charles R. Swindoll
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in… — Leonardo da Vinci
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from… — William Alexander
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world. — Dan Pallotta

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