Kept Quotes

2728 quotes by 1970 authors

Bad promises are better broken than kept. — Abraham Lincoln
People are usually too busy counting the things they don't have. They notice how much more money their neighbor has, how much further ahead in… — Harold Klemp
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance. — John Donne
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous… — Simone Weil
We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have… — Patrick Pearse
But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece… — Michael Weatherly
Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few… — Katherine Dunn
I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody. — A A Milne
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep… — Erica Jong
I'm a little shot that just kept on shooting. — Harvey Mackay
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a… — Luther Standing Bear
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,… — Joseph Campbell
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our… — James Madison
His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have… — J D Salinger
I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke… — Ving Rhames
America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the… — Jamaica Kincaid
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to… — Helen Garner
The lessons I learned in Sunday School have kept me on track — Denzel Washington
I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When… — Peggy Lee

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