Top 100 Keep Up Quotes
#1. As we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit ISIL harder than ever.
Barack Obama
#2. I am never home, and it's hard to keep up with things that are good for you to have in life like relationships, whether they be romantic or friendship. I have to work twice as hard to make sure I don't just check out. That's what I mean by vulnerability.
Jen Kirkman
#3. The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can.
Lewis Thomas
#4. I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'
Garth Nix
#5. The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.
John Mearsheimer
#6. A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
David Lloyd George
#7. All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.
Glenn T. Seaborg
#8. You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#9. Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.
Alexandra Potter
#11. The world turned, and new stories rose up, and the legends of the old days faltered a little, or turned themselves in their course to keep up with the lives of their people, and the lives of great-grandchildren of those they had first known.
Robin McKinley
#12. I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him.
Blake Griffin
#13. Dance after dance after dance, until sweat was running down my back as I worked to keep up, keep that smile on my face, to remember to laugh when my hands were within strangling distance from his throat.
Sarah J. Maas
#14. I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.
Guy Pearce
#15. Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
Gabrielle Zevin
#16. With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.
Henry Mancini
#17. If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.
Alexander Kotov
#18. Can't believe the number of tracks I get sent every day now. Everyone is at it! There's no way you can keep up and I have two A&R guys!
Ralph Lawson
#19. Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#21. It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.
Irvine Welsh
#23. I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
A.R. Ammons
#24. The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses - to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.
Chris Anderson
#25. Love yourself as yourself. Never work to be someone else. Its too hard to keep up. Life is easier when you love you just as you are.
Janae Marie
#26. Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.
Mark Skousen
#27. When you step into your power and your true authentic self, you shine. You shine so brightly that the world tries to keep up.
Shannon Kaiser
#28. Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.
Jeffrey Brown
#31. Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.
Tommy Lee Jones
#32. One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of being right or knowing, there is life after admitting you don't know and that's beautiful.
Ben Lee
#33. Try to keep up with me," he said very slowly, like I was a candidate for the short bus. "De-mon. Demon. Me demon, you teenage girl.
Erin Lynn
#34. In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold
#35. We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.
Travis Barker
#36. If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.
Lawrence Kasdan
#37. From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
Ada Yonath
#38. When one is busy, as she was in Donegal, life whistles by. One struggles to keep up with oneself. It is vital, when one slows down, to be conscious of small things, small moments. To take pains.
Orna Ross
#39. The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
Alexis Ohanian
#40. X Out has helped me keep up my confidence, and I know it can help anyone who would rather have fun than worry about blemishes. If you want clear, seriously good-looking skin, X Out is for you.
Zendaya
#41. I got the best Mark-1 eyeballs in the fleet. Ain't no one can keep up with me! - Duv Jackson, Gunship
J.J. Snow
#42. I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.
Evelyn Lauder
#43. Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
Chuck Berry
#44. An old black bull threw back his head and bawled when the cows behind him didn't keep up, as if telling them the breakfast buffet was about to be spread, and he wasn't waiting for grace.
Carolyn Brown
#45. In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that telephone companies and other carriers provide law enforcement with access to this new technology.
Louis J. Freeh
#46. God, save me from temperance," Tilly said. "You haven't seen a party till you get a group of Anglicans and Catholics trying to beat each other to the bottom of a bottle."
"Now, that's not nice, Mrs Fagan," Father Michel said. "I've never met an Anglican that could keep up with me.
James S.A. Corey
#47. While Taij and I were together, I made sure to keep up my appearance since his lack of an erection always made me feel like something was wrong with me.
Jessica N. Watkins
#48. At first we tried to keep up, but soon we were tired of boiling and pickling and deviling, and my mother started complaining that all these free eggs were costing her way too much.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#49. I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he's doddering off to the grave.
Cassandra Clare
#50. What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
Winona LaDuke
#51. I've got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.
Maya Angelou
#52. But any war is harvest to such Governments, however ruinous it may be to a nation. It serves to keep up deceitful expectations, which prevent a people looking into the defects and abuses of Government. It is the "lo here!" and the "lo there!" that amuses and cheats the multitude.
Thomas Paine
#53. I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who's ahead in a division and everything that's going on.
Chadwick Boseman
#54. And is it all about the pay?"
"Hence the term mercenary." He chucked her under the chin. "Try to keep up, halfling.
Kresley Cole
#55. My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264
Jessica Stern
#56. It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble.
Marc Forster
#57. Delete," he said. "I keep telling you." But I couldn't. Even though I wasn't sure what the point was anymore. No one kept in touch, they just kept up. And then, when they couldn't keep up anymore, they forgot. I
Robyn Schneider
#58. Warming today is taking place at least ten times faster than it did at the end of the last glaciation, and at the end of all those glaciations that preceded it. To keep up, organisms will have to migrate, or otherwise adapt, at least ten times more quickly.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#59. those who cannot find food for their enthusiasm in a knowledge of their country as it actually is, or those who cannot love men just because they are men - who needs must shout and deify their country in order to keep up their excitement - these love excitement more than their country. To
Rabindranath Tagore
#60. I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.
George Mason
#61. I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
Jack Davenport
#62. Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up ... Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.
Lester R. Brown
#63. All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.
Pico Iyer
#64. I casually listen to mixes, but I don't know all the names of the tunes and the producers and stuff. It's hard to keep up with.
Jamie Woon
#66. It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#67. If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I've gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.
Shakira
#68. Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
Washington Allston
#69. The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.
Hannah More
#70. I can take a lot of pain without falling apart. I've had to learn to do that. But it was hard, today, to keep peddling and keep up with the others when just about everyone I saw made me feel worse and worse. My
Octavia E. Butler
#71. I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.
Meredith Brooks
#72. Everything had changed, and maybe she couldn't keep up with it, but she still was good at making people regret they had ever crossed her way.
Alexandra Engellmann
#73. I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.
Katharine Isabelle
#74. Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#75. When Elizabeth was old and had a wrinkled face and black teeth, she was one day discovered practicing the dance step alone, to the sound of a fiddle, determined to keep up to the last the limberness and agility necessary to impress foreign ambassadors with her grace and youth.
William Shakespeare
#76. Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
#77. I played French horn, and I certainly do miss it. I miss it. I wish I had the time to keep up with it. It's like exercising: You have to keep it up, especially the muscles in your lips to deal with the French horn.
Chuck Todd
#78. He's a wizard with his feet and is blessed with a gift for scoring goals. His best quality is his speed while the ball is at his feet. He may be the fastest man ever to lace up a football boot. No defender in the world can keep up with him.
Lilian Thuram
#79. The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.
Jim Breithaupt
#80. This is why cops shoot people in the back, I thought. They can't keep up. Then
Kent Walker
#81. Even if I could be forgiven, how long could I keep up the insincere apologies I made in pain, once I was back in my comfortable old high place. IV-98. For never can true reconcilement grow / Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep:
Joseph Lanzara
#82. Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Bill Watterson
#83. Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others
Richard Baxter
#84. What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.
Matthew Reilly
#85. I have to keep up appearances. I do roll with angels now.
Ashlan Thomas
#86. I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way.
Ari Emanuel
#87. It seemed like the world is moving too fast and I wanted it to stop, or at least slow down, so that I could keep up. I wanted the time to wait for me. Then I realized, life goes on, and I have to live with it.
Kcat Yarza
#88. It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.
J.C. Ryle
#89. I remember when I first started putting things on the web and people were writing about it. I totally didn't keep up with what was going on because I wanted to present stuff in museums and galleries and have some presence on the web. I feel fortunate to have posted stuff in the beginning.
Kalup Linzy
#90. Bowing, he offered his hand. "I cannot bear to watch you dance with any other than me."
That must have satisfied her curiosity, because she giggled and grasped his hand. "I care not to dance with any other than you...if you can manage to keep up with me."
"Are you questioning my stamina?
Amy Jarecki
#91. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#92. So now you know where to shop. Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Stop wasting your money on conspicuous consumption. As a first step, work less, earn less, accumulate less, and "consume" more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities.
Jonathan Haidt
#94. It wasn't wrong. I'm walking, but I'm dead already. And I don't know how much longer I can keep up the walking part.
Cassandra Clare
#95. The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.
Ken Robinson
#96. Keep up with social media. Twitter and Facebook are both great ways to get your music out, especially internationally.
Dia Frampton
#97. I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
Martina Hingis
#98. I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
George Benson
#99. An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
Mark Twain
#100. Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
John Selden
