Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect:… — Paul Theroux
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin… — Ann Patchett
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep.… — Brandon Sanderson
When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place,… — Charles Dickens
Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy. — E L Konigsburg
Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on… — Rob Sheffield
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay… — Betty Smith
What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. — Tom Stoppard
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but… — C.S. Lewis
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini
Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to… — Miranda July
...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,… — Mary Oliver
My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months… — Sarah Dessen
While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that… — Henri Nouwen
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened.… — Arundhati Roy
Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He… — Diana Wynne Jones
I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for… — Steven Wright
I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying. — Steven Wright
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept… — Anton Chekhov
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. — Lillian Hellman
The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did… — Willa Cather
The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide… — Shannon Hale

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