Quotes About Keeping

I am undefeated in Oklahoma, and that's the thing; I plan on keeping it that way.

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

That it's caring that heals, not theory. Good the world over. And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems. As moonminded as Carl Jung was he was probably right about that. Keeping

Your list of suspects, of course. Don't you watch TV? Don't you read books? How do you expect to solve a mystery if you're not keeping a list?

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

I felt a real kinship with Steve Bruner. He's one of those guys that is so prolific that he has a hard time keeping up with himself. I'm the opposite and move at a glacial place.

it is by the place we've got, and our love for it and our keeping of it, that this world is joined to Heaven.

What all disciplines have in common is a search for rules and a commitment to them. And what all great learners have is a deep appreciation for finding better rules and a commitment to keeping them. That is why great learners are careful about what commitments they make and then keeping them.

I dont never hav enny trouble in regulating mi own kondukt, but tew keep other pholks straight iz what bothers me.

I'll be in the morgue." Good place for him, thought Lucy, as she booted up her computer. If only he could stay there permanently. With Bill. They could sit and congratulate themselves on issuing tough lines and demands and ultimatums while the women of the world conciliated and compromised and kept things going.

The romantic image of the ancient world is very inspiring, as is nature itself, but I think the dissatisfaction with our modern world is the strongest force keeping me going.

Writing about such things is a way of keeping the evil outside, away from me.

Tess had seen exactly how Will had managed to keep this thing with Felicity a secret for so long. Family life, even with just one little boy, had its own familiar rhythms, and it was perfectly possible to keep right on dancing like you always have, even when your mind is somewhere else.

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

He started keeping a journal — had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

Such is the reason for avoiding shame and keeping margins concealed for it is there where fragility is made manifest.

The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see what makes the human heart happy? Is it art or is it sex? Or is it, as I suspect, just keeping going from next thing to next thing to next thing to next thing to next to next to next to next pulsating stupidly to outlast time?

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

the place known at her grandfather's as the cellar, where the fresh made cheeses and the new milk were kept, was a pleasant and inviting place;

The intelligence (and humanity) of a person are apparent in the strategies he employs to get what he wants. Wisdom, in winning only that whose keeping would not cause too much headache.

Getting those rights is essential. But, as Kenji Yoshino notes in his discussing of covering, winning rights is only one part of the battle. To keep them, we have to change the culture, and that means resisting the demand that we cover and conform.

For Mark Strand, the poet's responsibility to be a witness, a recorder of experience, is part of the broader responsibility we all have for keeping the universe ordered through our consciousness:

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues. GEORGE ORWELL, 1946