Kept Quotes
2728 quotes by 2055 authors
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Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not…
— Philip Warren Anderson
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When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I…
— Tim Freeman
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
— Michel de Montaigne
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When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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They were beginning to burn churches. They were beginning to move beyond crosses... They burned churches because they understood that the Christian faith was what…
— Ed King
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The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at…
— Herb Gray
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Believers keep up and maintain their walk with God by secret prayer. The spirit of grace is always accompanied with the spirit of supplication. It…
— George Whitefield
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They were so much alike and they become best friends. It was a wonderful relationship. They respected each other, and they never put each other…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to…
— Chiara Lubich
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According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his…
— John Green
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One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold…
— William Barclay
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I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.
— Charles R. Schwab
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Some things are not meant to be kept forever... You know you have to stop and let go when things aren't going right, and everything…
— Noemie Lenoir
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Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under…
— Mother Teresa
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
— Philip Sidney
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've…
— Stephanie Gilmore
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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.
— Arlo Guthrie
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Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was…
— Carlos Pena, Jr.
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She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In…
— Nancy Price
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