Kept Quotes
2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors
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Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along…
— Rick Riordan
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But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.
— Rainbow Rowell
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Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died,…
— Howard Nemerov
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Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.
— Martin Luther
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Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
— Unknown Author
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For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
— William Jewett Tucker
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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
— Joseph Addison
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By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He,…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
— Bob Hope
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For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is…
— Johannes Scotus Eriugena
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
— Margaret Mead
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If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this…
— Julian of Norwich
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I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
— Charlie Parker
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Let your poem be kept nine years.
— Horace
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
— William Proxmire
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Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they venture into the…
— Victor J. Stenger
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Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
— William James
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He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
— Unknown Author
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every…
— Lady Randolph Churchill
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The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.
— Zig Ziglar
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Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.
— Jeffrey R. Immelt
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But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could…
— David McCullough
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