Keeping Someone Quotes

#1. Life to me is just so precious. I fail to see the wrong in keeping someone alive who's still got quality of life even if it's only for a few months.

Charles Teo

#2. You needn't worry about my following you or looking for you Princess. I'm not in the business of keeping someone who doesn't want to be kept.

Lilly Wilde

#3. It seemed to Ellie that you could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret - by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.

Jennifer E. Smith

#4. You can't always tell when someone's keeping something inside and not really happy.

Oliver Sykes

#5. I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.

Steven Yeun

#6. If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time?

Maria Thayer

#7. You should be with a nice human boy. One who takes your orders and puts up with your demands. Someone who dedicates his life to keeping you safe and well fed. Someone who can make you happy. Someone you can be proud of. Raffe

Susan Ee

#8. Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

Craig Groeschel

#9. There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

Dee Dee Myers

#10. Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Grace cannot prevail ... until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Robert Farrar Capon

#12. When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Jeremih

#13. Money is like a child - rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

Lemony Snicket

#14. When you offer peace instead of division, when you offer faith instead of fear, when you offer someone a place at your table instead of keeping them out because they're different or messy or wrong somehow, you represent the heart of Christ.

Shauna Niequist

#15. My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

Oscar Wilde

#16. I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

Jessica Chastain

#17. To empathize with someone means to care about and understand him. That's why the trick to keeping the audience's interest in a character, even when the character is not likable or is taking immoral actions, is to show the audience the hero's motive.

John Truby

#18. I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

Sammy Sosa

#19. My dad once told me that one day I'd meet someone who drives me so crazy I want to strangle her and yet never would because I can't bear for her to be gone. Well, that's when I'll know I've met a woman worth keeping.

Ella Frank

#20. Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.

Andy Stanley

#21. It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there's someone - something - out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.

Hannah Harrington

#22. Keeping Christ in Christmas is like showing up at someone's house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to.

Rebecca McKinsey

#23. You find something - or someone - to live for instead. And every day of your existence is focused on keeping her happy and healthy. And even when you fail at that, you try again. Because she is your life. She is everything.

S.L. Jennings

#24. She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.

Christine Feehan

#25. Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.

Eddie Vedder

#26. I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong ... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.

Kenny Wormald

#27. If I had one night, I'd hold you in my arms,
Find redemption, no more contention,
Keeping you close. Too long, years gone,
Wasted away. One night, our night,
Remember this. I won't forget you,
No I won't forget you. - Red-Eyed Loons

Liza M. Wiemer

#28. I've learned that just because I don't know how to break up with someone, doesn't mean they were worth keeping.

Steve Maraboli

#29. When the going is hardest, just keep on keeping on, and you'll get there sooner than someone who finds the going easy.

Napoleon Hill

#30. Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles.

Meljean Brook

#31. If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

Stephen Richards

#32. So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

Jim Trelease

#33. What wisdom is there in keeping a person alive above all considerations ? Why should doctors keep restarting someone's heart if they're never going to get well?

Lurlene McDaniel

#34. True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over.

Kate McGahan

#35. You want to sub, baby, but you've got no idea what it means. When you give someone the power to do what they want to you, you also give them the responsibility of keeping you safe. Otherwise, you can't ever really give in and let go.

Amelia C. Gormley

#36. He put his forehead against hers.
"Alannah, my heart is yours." He said softly.
"And yet, I must hand it over to someone else for the keeping." Her last words falling to a strained whisper.

B.C. Morin

#37. I'm Italian, so I need to get someone to wax my eyebrows, but I'm not so good at keeping it up.

Gia Coppola

#38. Just because someone doesn't act or look unhappy doesn't mean their lives are perfect." He raises his eyebrows. "There's this method of dealing with things that involves keeping your chin up. Knowing whatever crap you're dealing with right now isn't going to last forever. All things pass.

Kelley York

#39. When you know someone is keeping secrets from you it makes you feel like an idiot, and no one likes feeling like an idiot. Mum

Fredrik Backman

#40. It is always correct to recommend that someone seek medical advice, in a truly caring way of course, if you feel that their condition is letting them down at the highest social levels.

Jonathan Rice

#41. We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

Susan Hampshire

#42. She had trouble keeping her mouth shut when she didn't agree with someone or felt they were just plain stupid.

Sierra Hill

#43. One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal.

Madeleine L'Engle

#44. If the world is full of monsters, someone has to be keeping us safe. Someone has to be fighting for us out there.

Craig Schaefer

#45. Never run upstairs when someone's chasing you. Don't try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.

Mark Zero

#46. It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot. Because when you're just fucking someone you make a point of keeping your cool, but when you're really in love - it can sound pretty repulsive.

Etgar Keret

#47. The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

Wayne Jacobsen

#48. Sometimes keeping a secret seems like the right thing to do because telling the truth might hurt someone and makes it seem like you don't love them. But really, telling the truth is the right thing to do. It's the most loving thing to do.
-Kaylee

Ginny L. Yttrup

#49. For a man as keen as he on getting into bed with women, keeping hidden the full enormity of his fatness was a chronic problem. Its most acute form naturally came up when someone new had to be hustled or cajoled past the point of no return. That point tended to get later and later as his belly waxed.

Kingsley Amis

#50. I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

Mose Allison

#51. Somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone had to do the saving and keeping, one way or another, in books, in records, in people's heads, any way at all so long as it was safe, free from moths, silverfish, rust and dry rot and men with matches.

Ray Bradbury

#52. My mind wanders back to the dream, to Christian, the way he's always looking out for me, catching me, keeping me on my feet. He's becoming my guardian, maybe. Someone who is there to keep me on my path.

Cynthia Hand

#53. Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

Robert Breault

#54. Damn it,Izzy, I told you, keeping a low profile is an essential part of every job."
"I was trying!"
"And breaking someone's arm by second period? That was your attempt at trying?

Rachel Hawkins

#55. For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

Milan Kundera

#56. The problem with keeping a secret is that you don't give someone a chance to come through for you, to prove to you that they love you unconditionally.

Susan May Warren

#57. Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.

John Hall

#58. That was progress, right there. Except no one would ever know how hard I was working to keep my temper under control, because the whole point of keeping your temper under control is not doing things like throwing a milk carton in someone's face even though they clearly deserve it.

Cat Clarke

#59. Shae-Lynn, come on. You know I didn't mean for it to happen that way. I was just trying to do right by you."

"Doing right by me would have been respecting my wishes and keeping your promises. Leave me alone, Billy. I don't want to be friends with someone I can't depend on.

D.R. Graham

#60. Be careful who you share your personal life with. If someone you confide shares secrets with you, that they were asked not to divulge, chances are your secret's already out there too. Everything is not for everybody.

Carlos Wallace

#61. Hi's nose was pressed to his window. I've changed my mind, Tory. This is the perfect place to hold someone prisoner. I'm keeping this on file.

Kathy Reichs

#62. The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.

Karin Slaughter

#63. I live in Hollywood. Go three feet and you will run into someone more cut and better looking than me. For me, working out is more about keeping my temperament great. Jujitsu and lifting keep me very even.

Jonathan Lipnicki

#64. When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you're writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You're trying to tell someone about something that they may know nothing about. They depend on you to read or interpret as best as you can.

Darryl Pinckney

#65. Don't follow someone else's map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#66. It says, loving doesn't change just because someone isn't there, or because time gets in the way, or even death. It's always with you, keeping you safe, it won't ever leave you.

Susan Cooper