Kept Quotes

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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around… — E. M. Forster
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. — Albert Einstein
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. — Horace
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
If I had it my way, I would have just kept it short forever. Of course, men like long hair. There's no two ways about… — Emma Watson
It's strange, somebody asked for my autograph the other day. Because I finished school and I'm not really doing anything at the moment, I was… — Robert Pattinson
But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being… — Robert Klein
You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to… — Charlie Munger
I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered… — Nikita Khrushchev
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. — Annie Proulx
Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more… — Paul Morphy
If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0. — Steve Cotterill
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established… — Jerry Uelsmann
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient — Aron Nimzowitsch
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer… — Peter Singer
And as we kept driving north, the whole family in the care together, it got darker, and snowier, until finally the road delivered us to… — John Green
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and… — Edward Condon
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade… — Edgar Mitchell
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on. — Pope Benedict XVI

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