Kept Quotes
2728 quotes by 1970 authors
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I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent
— Publilius Syrus
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I've always thought that there shouldn't be any limit to the things that are well designed. And I think that people who consider that art…
— Ken Done
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I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good…
— Louis C. K.
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We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise…
— Seth Godin
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And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the hospital to donate…
— Stephen Colbert
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Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not…
— Paulo Coelho
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I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but…
— Patti Smith
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A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow…
— R C Sproul
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We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear…
— Thomas Keating
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In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the…
— William Bligh
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Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that…
— John Cassian
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Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and…
— Gregory Palamas
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The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.
— Robert Grudin
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Who can break the law? If I break this glass, it will fall down. If anyone succeeds in throwing one atom out of place, every…
— Swami Vivekananda
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My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued…
— Melissa Rivers
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In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
— Eric Schmidt
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Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil…
— Werner Herzog
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