Kept Them Quotes

34 Kept Them quotes by 31 unique authors

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
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant. — Laozi
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
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
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
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
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. — Alfred Hitchcock
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
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
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
When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. — Sidney Sheldon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their… — Sue Monk Kidd
Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept… — James Fallows
The danger is that the cruel arts of their oppressors have enchained their minds, have kept them in the ignorance of children, and as incapable… — Thomas Jefferson
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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