Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and… — Ronald Reagan
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. — Homer
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must… — Bertrand Russell
I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures… — Georges Braque
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which… — Vincent Van Gogh
Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught. — Claude Monet
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the… — Freya Stark
Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept… — Daniel Dennett
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must… — Carl von Clausewitz
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external… — Brenda Ueland
When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted… — Ken Livingstone
It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though… — Robert R. McCammon
Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my… — Bjorn Borg
It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not — Ossie Davis
Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime. — Imre Lakatos
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these… — Sol LeWitt
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which… — Helen Hunt
Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't… — Bill Cowher
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often… — C. D. Broad
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot… — Will Rogers
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come… — Richard Steele
Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing… — John Muir
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. — Rachel Carson
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. — Theodore Roosevelt
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my… — Carl Schurz

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