Top 100 Kept Quotes
#2. Once our idea of heaven meant
all the dead relatives waiting
on the kept lawn of the many mansions
as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing
to do ...
Deborah Digges
#3. Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.
Avicenna
#5. I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
Roger McGuinn
#6. My mouth kept running without checking in with my brain. My heart maybe, but not my brain.
Jim Butcher
#7. The days seemed to stretch out toward infinity, blank and humid, without purpose, and at night I was kept awake by the endless drone of mosquitoes and helicopters. (Why wars must be contested under such conditions I shall never understand. Is not death sufficient?)
Tim O'Brien
#8. I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
Groucho Marx
#9. Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.
Frank Stella
#10. I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.
Ruzwana Bashir
#11. For me, it was faith that kept me going when I wanted to give up. I knew that God meant for me to fulfill a purpose in life.
Sarah Darer Littman
#12. Was I doing the right thing? Or being stupid for not following Liam's plan? Only time would tell. For now, I had to believe that whatever move kept Liam safe was not only the right solution, but the only solution.
Laura Marie Altom
#13. There was clairvoyance to their words and a tenderness in their inflections that instilled even in the most cynical of male hearts that faith and fate weren't just words, they were our guides and as long as you kept your heart open, sooner or later love would find its way into it.
Eric Monsky
#14. On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."
Annika Sorenstam
#15. Well, the priest did very well, considering. He got in all the details, and that is a good thing in a local item: you see, he had kept books for the undertaker-department of his church when he was younger, and there, you know, the money's in the details; the more details, the more swag:
Mark Twain
#16. Harold was so tired he could barely lift his feet, and yet he felt such hope, he was giddy with it. If he kept looking at the things that were bigger than himself, he knew he would make it to Berwick.
Rachel Joyce
#17. You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#18. The overworked man was tired of everything, and he only kept going because he had long since forgotten that life could consist of anything else.
Jonas Jonasson
#19. Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
Arnold Weinstock
#20. I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school.
J.K. Rowling
#21. A nix who kept changing her appearance was selling something she called moonshine
Elliott James
#22. Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the contents and locations of all the bottles kept the bar running.
Scott Lynch
#23. It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
Kevin J. Anderson
#24. I came because as soon as we figured out where you might be, nothing would've kept me from finding you. Nothing.
Lara Adrian
#25. I'd drained our bank account, and there was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept at the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled "DEAD SPIDERS." As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't have wanted to look at dead spiders. I
Adam Rex
#26. Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.
Dalai Lama
#27. There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I just kept going, 'You don't have any idea what goes into making a game, do you?'
Nolan North
#28. Ford kept his hands on his head. "Is that really necessary? I was arrested by Serenity Services a week ago, and they didn't even cuff me."
The argument that you don't need cuffs because you were arrested without them a week ago is a winner, Sadie thought.
Michele Jaffe
#29. Those that were up themselves, kept others low;
Those that were low themselves, held others hard;
He suffered them to ryse or greater grow;
But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
Edmund Spenser
#30. The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.
Herb Gray
#31. Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.
Flannery O'Connor
#32. Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#33. He kept her company, listened patiently when she complained, and always made sure her clothes were thoroughly covered in cat hair. They were family. He was her cat; she was his human. It seemed crazy, but that was enough.
Lydia Sherrer
#34. The feeling that something good will happen must always be kept alive!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.
Samm Levine
#37. At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.
Aleksandar Hemon
#38. But the most important thing of all, to which she kept returning like a tongue probing a sore tooth, was the realization that she had fallen in love with her gaurdian.
Patricia C. Wrede
#39. Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
Peter Kreeft
#40. I once missed an appointment because I left my house, I locked the door. And then I thought, like anybody else, you know, 'I don't think I locked the door.' I just kept going back to the door. And I couldn't stop myself from checking and checking.
Howie Mandel
#41. Such power I gave the people as might do,
Abridged not what they had, now lavished new,
Those that were great in wealth and high in place
My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace.
Before them both I held my shield of might,
And let not either touch the other's right.
Plutarch
#42. Dillon kept his face impassive, his heart just racing. He had him. He knew where Dal was, and he was going to go there and fuck the man sober. And when Dal couldn't walk straight, then they were going to talk.
Sean Michael
#43. Rocher was on the floor, crawling on her stomach toward Jate's feet. "I love you ... ," she kept repeating, in a demonic whisper. "I have to show you ... my butt.
Paul Rudnick
#44. The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'
Jason Aldean
#45. I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#46. When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance.
Billy Meier
#47. I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
Vidal Sassoon
#48. arrowed south through thick forest, then into the water before adrenaline stopped beating the fuck out of his heart. Slogging across the narrow inlet in full gear kept the fury building. The
Toni Anderson
#49. Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.
Liam Neeson
#50. Had I been too selfish? I had never known my mother, but I knew my life as it had been without her: the ship, the sea, the myths, the maps . . . and, yes, Kashmir. The pain I felt at the thought of losing him - the same pain that kept me at arm's length - gave me a hint of my father's own struggle.
Heidi Heilig
#51. They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything.
Upton Sinclair
#52. To tell the truth, I had found it very hard to follow his reasoning, first because I was hot and there were big flies in his office that kept landing on my face, and also because he was scaring me a little. At the same time I knew that that was ridiculous because, after all, I was the criminal.
Albert Camus
#53. You can't go back. What's done is done. Unrequited love is never easy. Time heals all wounds. I kept repeating such cliches to myself, hoping that they, like medicine, would take away the sting.
They didn't.
Alice J. Wisler
#54. She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear.
Lisa Scottoline
#55. When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
#56. Trent has kept his promise. He makes me smile every day.
K.A. Tucker
#57. In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.
Brenton Thwaites
#58. He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.
Stella Gibbons
#59. Before, there had been this small, shiny thing inside her that kept her immune from what was happening, and now she knew it had only been her ignorance, and she felt herself falling into a deep, dark place.
Tatjana Soli
#60. He told himself she wasn't really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when they wanted to be in the clear.
David Goodis
#61. I shut the door and waited to see what she would do. To my surprise she lowered the gun but kept it in her hands. "I'll give you five minutes to explain."
I opened my mouth to begin but she held up a hand. "First let me get you some pants.
Cambria Hebert
#62. The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#63. I've always thought that there shouldn't be any limit to the things that are well designed. And I think that people who consider that art should only be kept for art galleries and doesn't have a role in public life, I think that's too narrow.
Ken Done
#64. His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
Veronica Roth
#65. Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.
Randy Alcorn
#66. I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.
Peter Capaldi
#68. Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.
Thomas Jefferson
#69. People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.
Skeet Ulrich
#70. Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.
Jean De La Bruyere
#71. Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept
T. E. Hulme
#72. Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.
Eugene Kennedy
#73. Neal loved her, Georgie knew that. He couldn't keep his hands off her
he couldn't keep his ink off her; he was always doodling on her stomach or her thigh or her shoulder. He kept a set of Prismacolor markers by his bed, and when Georgie took a shower, the water rain rainbows.
Rainbow Rowell
#74. The tribe's survival and sustenance depended on each clan sharing its gifts without expectations of getting something in return. This relationship kept the Choptanks strong and united. They lived in a bountiful land, and although variety was not always available, there was plenty for everyone.
Stan E Hughes
#75. If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?
Zicheng Hong
#76. I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
Jake Owen
#77. Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve
Jim Butcher
#78. She felt like a juggler tossing torches into the air. The circus-master kept throwing more in. Sooner or later, one would fall, and the life she'd built would burn to cinders.
Courtney Milan
#79. While I learned, I hid out largely in the gay community, and overall it kept me very safe.
Rose McGowan
#80. I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
Maddie Ziegler
#81. For once you must try not to shirk the facts:
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Bertolt Brecht
#82. The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow
#83. The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.
Mason Cooley
#85. (One of the best-kept secrets of "country life" is that people accidentally crush their own pets a lot.) The
Tina Fey
#86. I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
Jenny Offill
#88. If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us
Robert Kenner
#89. Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.
Donald Hall
#90. Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
Stephen King
#91. Which direction?" Robard asked.
"Robard," I said exasperated, "we need a boat. I believe boats are kept at or near the ocean.
Michael P. Spradlin
#92. And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.
Sophocles
#93. Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.
Dorothy Kilgallen
#94. Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
Alfred North Whitehead
#95. The diversity of things, their individuality, were only an appearance, a veneer. This veneer had melted,
leaving soft, monstrous masses, all in disorder - naked, in a frightful, obscene nakedness. I kept myself from making the slightest movement, but I didn't need to move in order to
Jean-Paul Sartre
#96. Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
Martin Luther
#97. Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#99. Maybe she just needed out. Out of Caldwell. Out of the CCJ. Out of the electronic family of her alarm clock and the phone on her desk and the TV that kept her dreams away while she slept.
J.R. Ward
#100. One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.
Thomas Sowell
