Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. — Flannery O'Connor
Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul .… — Neal A. Maxwell
Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready… — Megan Whalen Turner
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. — Sherwood Anderson
Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this… — C.S. Lewis
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther… — Joyce Carol Oates
There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart… — Edith Wharton
He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive… — Evelyn Waugh
This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have,… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts… — Audre Lorde
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a… — Henry Miller
The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the… — Tom Waits
Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was… — Francine Rivers
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set… — A. E. Housman
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but… — Bill Bryson
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept. — John Steinbeck
Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every single component in… — Michael Collins
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to… — Sarah Dessen
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.… — Brigham Young
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for… — Alan Bennett
I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love… — Margaret Mitchell
All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying — Amy Tan
A man kept his character even when he was insane. — Graham Greene

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