Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting. — Vincent Van Gogh
I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together… — Carol Rifka Brunt
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal… — Jean de la Bruyere
Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they… — Jean de la Bruyere
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no… — Jean de la Bruyere
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems. — Wystan Hugh Auden
I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power… — James Anthony Froude
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was… — Kurt Vonnegut
Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could… — Harper Lee
Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon… — Paul Robeson
Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not… — William Barclay
What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity. — Bill Vaughan
In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises. — Fred Allen
Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept. — John Selden
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to… — Stephen Leacock
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old… — Stephen Leacock
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die,… — Ernest Hemingway
I drew when I was very, very young. My mom kept stuff I drew when I was 2 and a half years old, because it… — Dan Povenmire
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that… — David Byrne
Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret. — Julian Assange
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles. — Jeff Foxworthy
I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven… — Al Franken
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily… — Jacque Fresco
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. — Thomas Fuller

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