Kept Them Quotes
34 quotes by 33 authors
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
— Annie Proulx
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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
— Laozi
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We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed…
— Eric Butterworth
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In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these…
— Sol LeWitt
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
— Randy Schekman
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Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in…
— Pete Seeger
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
— Dean Koontz
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Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted…
— Denis Leary
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Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could…
— Ronald Reagan
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When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
— Sidney Sheldon
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I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little…
— Tom Waits
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You are my siren,†he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk…
— Sarah MacLean
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There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her…
— Cecelia Ahern
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First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters,…
— Tim O'Brien
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Pulling out his daggers, he kept them in his sleeves, just in case he happened upon someone who wouldn’t understand why a tall, dark-haired man…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I meant it, Claire,' he said quietly. 'My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we go next. To…
— Diana Gabaldon
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The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the…
— Ian Fleming
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