Quotes about keep

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“You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.”

“Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.”

“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”

“I went over and over everything that had ever happened between us. I couldn’t keep doing it, going back and fourth, holding her close and then pushing her away. It wasn’t right”

“Hope is all that keeps us going sometimes, biscuit”

“One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.”

“I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered on the beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.”

“I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.”

“He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.”

“… but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.”

“Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.
Death on her left.
Devil on her right.”

“Chance encounters are what keep us going.”

“Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?"

Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.”

“I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”

“Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.”

“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.”

“I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.”

“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.”

“We think of mortality so little these days…
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be…”

“It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

“Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.”

“Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.”

“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”

“Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves

moments before the wind.”

“History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”

“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

“If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.”

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

“Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.”

“Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips… Die into me or don't come to me at all.”

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”

“Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!”

“Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command!”

“Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn’t work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don’t ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.”

“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.”

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

“The dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows and the dreamer just a vessel that must follow where it goes. We must lean from what's behind us never knowing what's in store keeps each day a contant battle just to stay between the shore”

“As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon… So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.”

“We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made"
"Oh… In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.”

“Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?”

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”

“You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.”

“There are just lots of possibilities in the world… I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.”

“Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain.
Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.”

“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare…”

“The world that used to nurse us
now keeps shouting inane instructions.
That's why I ran to the woods.”

“Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.”

“No one should know his entire fate. It's too dangerous and too depressing. Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do.”

“I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.”

“You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.”

“It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.”

“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”

“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”

“There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.”

“She wanted letters. Real letters written in his handwriting on actual paper that she could hold and keep and read whenever the mood struck her. They were proof, solid and tangible, that someone was thinking about her.”

“instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.”

“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”

“Five Great Charters knit the land
together linked hand and hand.
One in the people who wear the crown
Two in the folk who keep the Dead down
Three and Five became stone and mortar
Four sees all in frozen water.”

“You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.”

“some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart…. it will keep you alive.
-merry gentry”

“Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.”

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”

“The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.”

“A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.”

“Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.”

“And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]”

“Inspiration is what keeps us well.”

“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”

“Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along… or you're next.”

“And we believe in his promises. Therefore you can never lose hope -  hatikva - because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.”

“Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.”

“I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.”

“Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.”

“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”

“The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?”

“Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.”

“Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually…" Shane said.

"Shut up" Claire said.”

“Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.”

“Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.”

“Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.”

“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”

“The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.
-Kheldar”

“It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.”

“One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.”

“How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”

“Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.”

“There will be guards,” Bast said. “And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.”
“Magicians can do that?” I asked. I imagined a big can of pesticide labeled God-Away.”

“Don’t make promises you can’t keep”

“I must survive. I have promises to keep.”

“Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.”

“Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth”

“The truth is, it’s hard to get people to like you, but it’s even harder to keep people liking you.”

“When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.”

“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.”

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”