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2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a… — Colum McCann
I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band… — Conan O'Brien
But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. — Leo Tolstoy
She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the… — Abraham Verghese
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam.… — Anne Rice
People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country. — Vivian Vande Velde
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — Joseph Campbell
Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Master... his course… — Francis Scott Key
Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life… — Mark Twain
It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is… — Charles Dickens
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where… — Joan Didion
Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed. — Ronald Reagan
All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate… — Corrie Ten Boom
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell
They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because – well, I… — Meg Cabot
There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows.… — Jim Butcher
I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.” ~… — Lisa Kleypas
I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing… — Daphne du Maurier
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her.… — D. H. Lawrence
His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient.… — Lois McMaster Bujold
How many demons and people are enslaved here? (Jericho) Define slavery. (Asmodeus) Kept against their will. (Jericho) Good definition. Counting me? (Asmodeus) Why not? (Jericho)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
What's this?" Nick said. "Bedtime?" No one answered him. I kept my eyes closed. You look positively content, Clayton," Nick continued, thumping down on the… — Kelley Armstrong
Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and… — Sara Zarr
The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close… — Charlaine Harris
He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery. — Stella Gibbons

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