Quotes about keep
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“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking”

Source: Prozac Nation

“Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

Dogs, Soul

“It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Money, Age, Sex

“The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.”

Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer

World, Change

“Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Fight

“His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

Age, World, Question

“Basically, your fear is like a mall cop who thinks he’s a Navy SEAL: He hasn’t slept in days, he’s all hopped up on Red Bull, and he’s liable to shoot at his own shadow in an absurd effort to keep everyone “safe.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Fear, Thinking, Effort

“He makes a pained sound. "Bloody hell, woman, I think a part of me wants to keep you this way.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

Pain, Way, Hell, Thinking

“Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Sport, Learning, Personality

“I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Feeling, Thinking, Training

“There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

Wisdom

“Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

Soul

“Why do magazines do this to women? It's
all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

Women, Men, Feeling

“That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Variant: That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel

Love, Time

“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author

Dreams, Night

“Phury nodded. "And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

Cats

“Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Love, World

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: The Journals of Jim Elliot

Fools

“If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.”

Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer

Imagination, Learning, Baby

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”

Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author

World Policy Journal, "Reflections", Volume XXI, No 2, Summer 2004 Available Online https://web.archive.org/web/20080616055809/http://www.worldpolicy.org:80/journal/articles/wpj04-2/Tharoor.html <br class="br">2000s

People, History, Country

“We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

Life, Cars, Understanding

“All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Butcher Bird

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Bee

“Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.”

James Patterson book The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Source: The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

“He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Life, Learning

“Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Fear, Time, Hurt

“Butch put his hand on his roommate's nape and murmured, "I'll do the saving until you get your head back, how about that? I'll keep you safe.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

“I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.”

Francois Truffaut (1932–1984) film director

Love, Life, Secret, Way

“Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Secret, Learning

“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
Source: City of Ashes

Love, Way, Change, Drawing

“The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.”

Vik Muniz (1961) Brazilian artist

Beauty, Time

“"Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games," says Peeta.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Peeta Mellark to Katniss Everdeen, p. 142
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Way, Game, Thinking

“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher

People

“We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.”

David Mamet (1947) American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director

Hope

“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Home, Heart

“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”

George Bernard Shaw Fanny's First Play

Source: Fanny's First Play

“Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Love

“I hate this guy,” Ari muttered, keeping his head down
“There’s a club,” I told him. “The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Hate, Guy

“When you go through a disappointment, when you go through a loss, don’t stop on that page. Keep moving forward. There’s another chapter in front of you, but you have to be willing to walk into it.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life

Disappointment, Loss

“There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Life

“Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn’t mad at her, but if he was she couldn’t blame him.
If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Hope, Madness, Anger

“So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.”

William Broyles Jr. (1944) American screenwriter

Source: Cast Away: The Shooting Script

Sun

“There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.”

Bob Newhart (1929) American stand-up comedian and actor

Way, Question, Cry

“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

Books, Reading, Happiness

“Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Secret

“I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Thinking, Waiting

“It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

Idea, Thinking

“I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Heard in the D. A. Pennebaker documentary Dont Look Back (1967)

Light

“A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?”

Dalton Trumbo book Johnny Got His Gun

Source: Johnny Got His Gun

Death, Money

“The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Sloppy Firsts

“Maryse had spoken to her son’s partner with affection she had never shown before, and now she wanted to hold the baby. Maryse was experiencing full-on grandma fever. The Lightwoods thought he and Alec were keeping the baby.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Born to Endless Night

Grandma, Baby

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Variant: You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love... the love that speaks the Language of the World.
Source: The Alchemist

Love, Understanding