Quotes about keep
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“Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben’s reflexes had saved him. “Please stop doing that!” Ben barked. “Please keep doing that!” Hi warbled.”

Kathy Reichs book Seizure

Source: Seizure

“You Keep Using the Word Help. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means”

Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor

Source: The Hammer of Thor

Thinking, Help

“When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.”

Jacqueline Susann book Valley of the Dolls

Source: Valley of the Dolls

Time

“Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

Thinking

“Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian)
Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“You're always the* person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

My Life on The Road
Source: My Life on the Road

Way, Personality

“Doctor."" Gideon set one ankle on the opposite knee and settled back, creating a picture of unyielding decisiveness.
""The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us.""”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Chapter 3 pg 50
Source: Reflected in You

Way, Decision, Dead

“True friendship is a promise you keep forever.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Friendship

“I keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.”

Rudyard Kipling book Just So Stories

The Elephant's Child.
Just So Stories (1902)

Men

“Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

Sleep, Cry

“nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love

“I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Fear, Family, Home

“Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?”

Stephen Fry book Making History

Source: Making History

“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

Women, Men, Secret

“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Secret

“Don't worry, Mrs. Colder. For the most part, we keep him leashed and gagged. We only let him free when the cute little animal jokes are needed.

~Sherra Callahan (on Kane Tyler)~”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Elizabeth's Wolf

Animals, Parting

“I have tried to keep memory alive… I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Memory, Fight, Forgetting

“The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.”

Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery

Source: Up from Slavery

Feeling, Time

“When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love”

Lisa See book Peony in Love

Source: Peony in Love

Love, People, Personality

“Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities…”

Kōji Suzuki book Ring

Source: Ring

Life, Hope, Question, Thinking

“The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.”

Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Life, Business, Daughters

“Keep your lips and other body parts to yourself or you’ll be headless. (Apollymi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Parting

“Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Night Star

Way, Thinking, Chance

“Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Drinking Midnight Wine

“I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

Pain, Truth, Soul

“I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Thinking

“Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

Time, Personality, Forgetting

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Powerful, Fate, Change

“Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.”

Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician

Beauty

“It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Fools

“I always keep some whiskey handy in case I see a snake… which I also keep handy.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

“He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Personality

“If you want to keep a friend, never test him.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back.”

Ryū Murakami book Coin Locker Babies

Source: Coin Locker Babies

Death, Pain, Learning, Heart

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Love, Life, Joy

“It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Someone to Watch Over Me

Love, Heart

“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist

Love

“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Hate, Way

“keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.”

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) American writer

“We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Appearance

“I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Business

“That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Feeling, Sense

“You did what you did out of love. I can't be mad at you over that. It was stupid, but that's how love is. Do you have any idea what I'd do for you? To keep you safe?”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Love, Stupidity, Idea, Madness

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Lovers

“You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on."

Homer Simpson”

Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist

“Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

World

“I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan)”

Keri Arthur Australian writer

Sister

“Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?”

Sharon M. Draper book Tears of a Tiger

Source: Tears of a Tiger

Courage

“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Life

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

Quote in a letter to Sherwood Anderson, October 1923; as quoted in Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life, Roxana Robinson, University Press of New England, 1999
1917 - 1929
Context: I have been thinking of what you say about form... I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown.... and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown known. By unknown I mean the thing that means so much to the person that he want to put it down - clarify something he feels but does not clearly understand... Making the unknown known.... if you stop to think of form as form you are lost.

“Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Deep, Beauty, Peaceful, Flowers

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Love, Life, Joy

“We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Ruthless Game

Baby

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Stupidity

“Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked,
keeping her voice low.
“The last time we were in this building, we accused the
Grand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I think
we’ll be waiting long.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

Thinking, Time, Waiting

“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Life, World, Soul, Understanding

“I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

People, Forgetting

“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 American writer

Source: Turbulent Sea

Love, Soul, Heart

“Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows.
"We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. "So he doesn't eat dog brains.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: On the Edge

Dogs

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Fate

“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

People

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Girl, Hurt

“I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Women, Country

“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love

“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”

John Updike book Rabbit Is Rich

Source: Rabbit Is Rich

People, World

“This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.”

Jean Webster book Just Patty

Source: Just Patty

Heart

“One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”

Joan Didion book Play It as It Lays

Source: Play It as It Lays

“If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Wild Roses

Life, People, Truth

“Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring… my desire.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Initiation / The Captive Part I

Sea

“Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits."
-David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Tanner's Scheme

Home, Moms

“I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Love, Understanding, Suffering

“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb"He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.”

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

“A place to keep all your secrets”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

Secret

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Life, Lovers

“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Life

“He exhaled loudly and raked a hand through the sable brown hair he always kept stylishly messy. "Look, Rose. You don’t have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You’ve already got me.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

“Got to keep thatin mind. I'm a ninja now… I swore I'd never freeze up or run away again… AND I WON'T…!”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 02: The Worst Client

“Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.”

Juliet Marillier book Shadowfell

Source: Shadowfell

Freedom, Help

“We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

People

“the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on”

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

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
Variant: The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew...

“It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”

Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer

Business

“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Madness

“I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

Source: Paper Machine

Books, Fight

“The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Life

“But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining (1977)
Context: Danny? You listen to me. I’m going to talk to you about it this once and never again this same way. There’s some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told, but the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. The world’s a hard place, Danny. It don’t care. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I. You’re a good boy. You grieve for your daddy, and when you feel you have to cry over what happened to him, you go into a closet or under your covers and cry until it’s all out of you again. That’s what a good son has to do. But see that you get on. That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

Love, World

“I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Thinking

“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

History, Past

“The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time