Quotes about keep
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“Where now? Who now? When now? Unquestioning. I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on.”

Samuel Beckett book The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

Question

“Every single person in America was talking about the sucker punch heard 'round the world. That whole 'Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth' didn’t really work out.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Toxic Femininity (2022)

World, Personality

“While we bicker day-to-day about this politician or that one, the true power players like the military industrial complex are doing things like creating A.I. that will control our future world. By keeping us preoccupied with nonsense, they can build our prison in peace & quiet.”

Lee Camp (1980) American comedian, writer, and activist

Twitter, https://twitter.com/LeeCamp/status/1282306040504164352 (12 July 2020)

World, Peace, Future

“But whatever you wish to keep, You better grab it fast.”

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

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

“Sometimes I write to keep from going crazy. There’s a world of things I don’t feel free to talk to anyone about.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 52

World, Feeling

“We cannot renounce our faith and not give a reason for it to those who wish to hear us. We need not hide our faith in Jesus Christ out of fear, nor should we keep quiet when there is an opportunity to bear witness to it.”

Antonio Dorado Soto (1931–2015) Spanish bishop

Bishop tells Spanish Catholics not to fear “psychological torture” (15 June 2005), Catholic News Agency https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/4164/bishop-tells-spanish-catholics-not-to-fear-psychological-torture

Fear, Faith, Christ

“I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it.”

Cherríe Moraga (1952) American writer

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

Pain, Joy

“Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you still have to argue it point by point. Especially since most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That’s libertarians for you—anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 370)

“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 431)

Life, Game, Change

“There's a light
There's a fire shining
Day and night
It came burning through
Shine on me
Shine on down you keep me
High and dry
I'm in love with you”

Steve Forbert (1954) American singer-songwriter

I'm in Love With You
Song lyrics, Jackrabbit Slim (1979)

Love, Light, Night

“The atmosphere of desperate, ignorant terror essential to healthy rumors seeps away, replaced by a silent, wary paranoia. People bunker down, jealously keeping what they know, which is nothing, to themselves.”

Max Barry book Company

Source: Company (2006), p. 174

People

“People are chameleons, and you adapt to your surroundings. If you're not willing to put the right people around you or stick to the right group of friends or keep the right influences around you, it makes everything more difficult.”

David Henrie (1989) American actor

David Henrie Interview: "There’s Someone out There That’s Got My Eye, but We’re Just Seeing Where It Goes" (26 January 2015) Smashing Interviews Magazine https://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/actors/david-henrie-interview-theres-someone-out-there-thats-got-my-eye-but-were-just-seeing-where-it-goes

People

“You know, the need for high-speed Internet is — is a little bit like what used to be probably what my grandfather talked about: needing to have a telephone. It’s pretty consequential. And it’s only going to keep growing, this need. High-speed Internet is not a luxury any longer, it’s a necessity.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, May 2022, Remarks By President Biden on the Affordable Connectivity Program

Speed

“If the abstraction is truly made well above the animal nature in man—his gregarious nature—it will keep the ancient rituals of his higher nature as long as possible. Human abstractions if true usually become ritual.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Nature, Animals

“No government has yet been able to repeal natural laws, though they keep trying.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 35)

Law, Nature

“The relationship between these two powers may be expressed by saying that the pope must keep for himself the golden key to the 'Celestial Paradise' and entrust to the emperor the silver key to the 'Terrestrial Paradise.'”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), p. 73

“A wise man can never be disappointed of whatever happens. It is only a change that makes things good and bad. And life is meant for change every second to keep the standard of existence.”

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach (1995)

Life, Disappointment, Change

“Nothing is more irritating and hurtful than a person who makes promises and breaks them over and over again. It shows lack of consideration for the other's feelings and also means the person cannot be trusted or relied upon. Do not make promises you feel you may not be able to keep, because besides being irritating, it also ruins character.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Feeling, Hurt, Personality

“I’m not there now to represent beauty; I’m there to represent a different dream. It may be defined as joyfulness; life goes on and there are many chapters. I think that’s why they keep me.”

Isabella Rossellini (1952) Italian actress and filmmaker

On what she feels like she symbolizes now for Lancôme in “Isabella Rossellini: ‘Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter – but there is freedom’” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/13/isabella-rossellini-ageing-brings-a-lot-of-happiness-you-get-fatter-but-there-is-freedom in The Guardian (2020 Oct 13)

Life, Beauty, Dreams, Thinking

“What keeps a couple in harmony is to never lying to each other.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ciò che mantiene una coppia in armonia è non mentirsi mai.
Source: prevale.net

Lying

“Shit scared them [the Surrealists]. Shit and arseholes. Yet, what was more human and more needful of transcending! From that moment, I know I would keep on obsessing them with what they most dreaded. And when I invented Surrealist objects, I had the deep inner fulfillment of knowing, while the [Surrealist] group went into ecstasies over their operation, that these objects very exactly reproduced the contradictions of a rectal sphincter at work, so that what they were thus admiring was their own fear.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

as cited in The Unspeakable confessions of Salvador Dali, Parinaud, ed. W. H. Allen, London 1976, p. 113
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1971 - 1980, Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali

Fear

“There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.”

George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

Confucius, in Pt. III : The Thing Happens
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

Secret

“Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying.”

Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer

Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World" (1970 version)

Love, Secret, World, Problem

“I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.
But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)

Search, Idea, Study, Painting

“I think that everything that is really good and beautiful, the inner, moral, spiritual and sublime beauty in men and their works, comes from God, and everything that is bad and evil in the works of men and in men is not from God, and God does not approve of it.
But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakable faith.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)

Love, Men, God, Faith

“After you have settled yourself in a place as favorable as possible to the concentration of your mind upon itself, have writing materials brought to you. Put yourself in as passive, or receptive, a state of mind as you can. Forget about your genius, your talents, and the talents of everyone else. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that lead to everything. Write quickly, without any preconceived subject, fast enough so that you will not remember what you're writing and be tempted to reread what you have written. The first sentence will come spontaneously, so compelling is the truth that with every passing second there is a sentence unknown to our consciousness which is only crying out to be heard.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)

Truth, Literature, Cry, Forgetting

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”

movie The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Jordan Belfort played by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

“An Enemy is a friend who knows too much about you. Remember to keep your enemies close to protect all those who you love.”

Darren89

Love

““My biggest mistake is that I consider myself as the subject. The fact is, I am only an object of existence. My limitations, hinder my view. My ignorance keeps me away from the truth.””

Titon Rahmawan

Truth

“Learn how to die by your love ones - strangers don't keep memories of strangers.”

Yusuf Cornelius Otijenu

Love, Learning, Memory

“The biggest obstacle for rulers is upholding the commitments they have been entrusted with since they came to power. How easy it is for rulers to forget what they have said and how easy it is for them to break the promises they are supposed to keep.”

Titon Rahmawan

Forgetting

“The only thing that keeps us alive is when we still have hope.”

Titon Rahmawan

Hope

“What we keep can be a burden to ourselves, while what we discard can be a blessing to others. Do you think that's a contradiction?”

Titon Rahmawan

Thinking

“In life, finding the solution to a problem every time keeps intellectual activity in full vitality.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nella vita, trovare ogni volta la soluzione ad un problema mantiene l’attività intellettuale in piena vitalità.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Problem, Time

““It’s 11:15 p. m. Most people are asleep and I’m just finishing my last exercise with my 30-pound vest. I sit on the bench to have some rest. I look at myself in the mirror. After a while, I ask myself a question: “Is it really still worth it?” Unfortunately, I don’t think I can answer this question. I really can’t. I keep thinking,

“You are alone, no family, you work like a horse, there is no one waiting for you at home.” This doesn’t sound too great, I think. But then another question pops up: “Then why do you keep doing it?” I know the answer to this question without hesitation. “Because I love it.””

Jaromír Jágr (1972) Czech ice hockey winger

Love, People, Family, Exercises

“Fight for what you want to achieve with patience. And keep what you achieve also with patience.”

Titon Rahmawan

Fight, Patience

“If you do not keep your word, you will have demonstrated that you do not hold yourself to standards of conduct. You will have demonstrated that you care more about your own personal happiness and whims than you do about the pain of others. You will have demonstrated that you do not value your relationships and even that you do not value the people you are in a relationship with. You will have demonstrated yourself to be a person who lacks Integrity and honor. You will have demonstrated that you cannot be relied upon and that you cannot be trusted. You will be seen as an unsafe person. You will ruin the way that other people will see you, most especially you will lose their respect. And on the road to this ultimate loss, you will have created non-stop conflict in all of your relationships.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Pain, Happiness, People, Way

“Only difficulties, obstacles and challenges will force you to keep moving. Keep changing and stay alert, because there are so many dangers out there.”

Titon Rahmawan

Change

“It's not love to keep people united, but respect. Love without respect… dies.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non è l'amore a tenere unite le persone, ma il rispetto. L'amore senza rispetto... muore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, People

“When you feel like you can't do it, keep creating, keep writing, keep playing, keep living, be real: choose yourself. That will change everything.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Quando vi sembrerà di non farcela, continuate a creare, a scrivere, a suonare, a vivere, ad essere veri: sceglietevi. Questo, cambierà tutto.
Source: prevale.net

Feeling, Change

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“Teachers do not merely transmit knowledge; we keep alive the conversation between generations that allows a community to understand who it has been, who it is, and who it aspires to become.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: La sociedad que olvidó a sus profesores. Por José Baroja. (2026, 13 junio). Le Monde Diplomatique. https://www.lemondediplomatique.cl/la-sociedad-que-olvido-a-sus-profesores-por-jose-baroja.html

Communication, Understanding, Knowledge, Teachers

Quotes about keep page 63

Quotes about keep
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