Top 100 For Keeps Quotes
#2. Lilly's something old was the love her husband-to-be had carried in his heart since he was just a boy. Her something new was the renewel of that love. Something blue was ever second they would ever be apart. There was nothing borrowed. Everything from here on out was for keeps.
Jan Watson
#3. Commitment. Someone who'll go the distance. I need somebody with staying power who'll make me go weak in the knees. Commitment. And everything that goes with it. I need honor and love in my life from somebody who's playing for keeps ...
LeAnn Rimes
#4. Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.
Carrie Preston
#5. Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
Ernest K. Gann
#6. No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
Uta Hagen
#7. Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.
Ezra Taft Benson
#8. Many have forgotten who our true enemy is. Satan is not playing a game with us. He is playing for keeps. He is out to destroy us.
Ruben Barreto
#9. Medicinal discovery,
It moves in mighty leaps,
It leapt straight past the common cold
And gave it us for keeps.
Pam Ayres
#10. Whether it's physically having a visual of what you want to accomplish in front of you, like a running list or a vision board, or mentally visualizing and taking time to meditate, having a vision of what you are running for keeps you from running for the sake of running.
Ian Somerhalder
#11. I need honor and love in my life from somebody who's playin' for keeps. What I'm searching for is a man who'll stand by me: who will walk through the fire and be my flame in the night. I won't settle for less than what I deserve: a friend and a lover who'll love me for the rest of my life.
LeAnn Rimes
#12. But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
Jonathan Lethem
#13. I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.
George R R Martin
#14. This time, whatever you're gonna do, make sure it's for keeps. You might be able to threaten those guys into leaving us alone, but you won't bully me. If you hurt her, I'll hurt you.
Melyssa Winchester
#15. Maybe you should just admit that you're crazy about me," he said, leaning in to kiss her again.
"And why would you want me to do that?" she asked, still smiling.
"Because I'm playing for keeps, my little grasshopper.
R.L. Mathewson
#16. Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
Haruki Murakami
#17. I need honor in my life from somebody playing for keeps.
LeAnn Rimes
#18. Then do it. Do this thing with me. For real." For keeps. That wish he kept tight inside his chest, not ready to trust it with breath yet.
Annabeth Albert
#19. All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.
Elizabeth George Speare
#20. Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
Harold Macmillan
#21. You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
L. Ron Hubbard
#22. Real bullets are for keeps, and concealment is not necessarily good cover.
Dick Couch
#23. Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
Nelson Algren
#24. When I said I loved you, I didn't mean for a week, or maybe a year, I meant always, in the good times and the bad, through thick and thin. I'm playing for keeps here, Mags.
Sherry Gammon
#25. No more messing around with Hell. They play for keeps.' 'So does Heaven.
Jana Oliver
#26. I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back;
I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.
Jon Bon Jovi
#27. Werewolf games," Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
Patricia Briggs
#28. Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps. Individuals play for time.
Gregory Maguire
#29. I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they've become much weaker; (3) we've become much stronger; and (4) now we're playing for keeps.
Kenneth Adelman
#30. What ever you do try to solve out any differences in your relationship/marriage because marriages are for keeps and God hates divorce anyway.
Euginia Herlihy
#32. Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own map for keeps. The truth is that the hours before a suicide are usually an interval of enormous conceit and self-involvement.
David Foster Wallace
#34. The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.
Shannon L. Alder
#35. If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive?
Beth Revis
#36. It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
Henry David Thoreau
#37. As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#38. It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.
Wally Amos
#39. Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
John Irving
#40. Saturday is for fears and secrets and confessions and remembrances; Sunday is for logistics, the daily mapmaking that keeps their life together inching along.
Hanya Yanagihara
#41. Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.
Jason Aldean
#42. President Obama keeps telling us that he is "creating jobs." But more and more Americans have no jobs. The unemployment rate has declined slightly, but only because many people have stopped looking for jobs. You are only counted as unemployed if you are still looking for a job.
Thomas Sowell
#43. Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.
Thomas Keating
#44. Getting adequate sleep is a sign that the world doesn't need your attention for seven to nine hours each day. It keeps spinning as usual in its orbit. Who wants to admit that?
Laura Vanderkam
#45. Better to sit at the waters birth,
Than a sea of waves to win;
To live in the love that floweth forth,
Than the love that cometh in.
Be thy a well of love, my child,
Flowing, and free, and sure;
For a cistern of love, though undefiled,
Keeps not the spirit pure.
George MacDonald
#46. I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
Laura Lippman
#47. Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
Byron Katie
#48. The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Rabindranath Tagore
#49. One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.
Robin McKinley
#50. Some relationships and love for people just keeps going on forever,
Meghant Parmar
#51. I think my family, especially having three teenage sons, keeps my cooking at home grounded and very approachable. I'm definitely not making spumas in my kitchen, that's for sure!
Rick Tramonto
#52. Waiting for Godot ... has achieved a theoretical impossibility - a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.
Vivian Mercier
#53. Everyone keeps saying I'll pick it up. But what if I don't? I did algebra for three
years, and I never picked that up.
Sophie Kinsella
#54. Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
#55. Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?
Don Zimmer
#56. I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.
Eric Shanteau
#57. I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.
Ellen Potter
#58. Never keep staring at the dreams you have on the paper ... Don't just live like a spectator. You have the power, you have the mine, you have the skills, you can dribble your obstacles to get your goals moving to the other
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.
George R R Martin
#60. It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.
Mark Twain
#61. I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.
Roger Bart
#62. So ... this is the dark dungeon where the very angry Tristan sleeps?"
"No. This is the dark dungeon where the very dangerous Tristan keeps himself away from the very carless young woman."
Clearly, he was in no mood for small talk.
Chelsea Fine
#63. A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.
Martine McCutcheon
#64. You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don't get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don't want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that's how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs.
Shikha Kaul
#65. Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in.
Bill Cosby
#66. I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?
Sophie Kinsella
#67. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
Peg Bracken
#68. We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
Dave Barry
#69. A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#70. A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.
Gary L. Blackwood
#71. The tolerance of the skeptic ... accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the "dogmatist."
Jean Guitton
#72. For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.
Miguel Ruiz
#73. Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
Tamara Tunie
#74. The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#75. odd, he thought, how the thought of childhood keeps coming back to me. The result of seeing Clarissa, perhaps; for women live much more in the past than we do, he thought.
Virginia Woolf
#76. Apollymi keeps a tight rein on them. (Kat)
Death to the bitch-goddess! May she die in a flaming pit of Charonte spit! (Xirena)
Damn, Kat, you can't win for losing. Is there anyone, other than you, who actually likes your family? (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#77. Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
Annie Leibovitz
#79. My ultimate goal is to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. And that keeps changing. I didn't want to host my own show until I wrote for someone else's.
Anthony Jeselnik
#80. When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.
Kelly Link
#81. If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.
Eckhart Tolle
#82. Within everyday a miracle comes into your life. Sometimes, you just have to keep the faith and patiently wait for that special moment that keeps you believing in yourself.
Jes Fuhrmann
#83. Turns out that a real-estate agent keeps her own home on the market an average of ten days longer and sells it for an extra 3-plus percent, or $10,000 on a $300,000 house.
Steven D. Levitt
#84. An Immense hatred keeps me alive ... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#85. It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#86. I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.
Ross Macdonald
#87. Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.
Douglas Rushkoff
#88. German sailors sing a drunken song in the street, and a house spider over the stove spins a new web every night, and to Marie-Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.
Anthony Doerr
#89. Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.
Aaron Schock
#90. Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don't have time.
Dave Thomas
#91. I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
Ronald Reagan
#92. I use Rodin Luxury Face Oil at night, and it keeps my skin hydrated and refreshed for the day - not tired from all the makeup.
Erin Heatherton
#93. There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
H.M. Tomlinson
#94. How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.
Ruben Papian
#95. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon
Jaeda DeWalt
#96. I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.
Joel Murray
#97. There's a role for the Mac as far as our eye can see. A role in conjunction with smartphones and tablets that allows you to make the choice of what you want to use. Our view is, the Mac keeps going forever, because the differences it brings are really valuable.
Phil Schiller
#98. I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.
Constance Jablonski
#99. There's no guarantee that all will be perfect but the hope for another day keeps us going.
Shikha Kaul
#100. Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
Aliko Dangote
