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Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock. -- Rose Tremain
Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire. -- Todd Rundgren
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life. -- Milan Kundera
First I was decayed, I was putrefied. Kept thinking I could never live on, now that I had died... -- Angelika Rust
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. -- George Bernard Shaw
Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence. -- Dorothy Kilgallen
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. -- Albert Einstein
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. -- Thomas Fuller
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do. -- Billy Joe Saunders
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. -- Arna Bontemps
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. -- Steven Wright
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. -- Bill Gates
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn. -- Edward Hoagland
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. -- Red Cloud
Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist. -- Augusto Pinochet
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. -- Dale Carnegie
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence. -- Michael Ignatieff
Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. -- Chris Chocola
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments. -- Amy Bloom
Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling. -- Sally Phillips
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple. -- Sol LeWitt
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy. -- Mayer Hawthorne
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. -- Steve Jobs
My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read. -- Beverly Cleary
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. -- Bob Feller
I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around. -- Q-Tip
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about. -- Madeleine Albright
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. -- Carrie Fisher
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. -- Joyce Maynard
Audiences have kept me alive. -- Judy Garland
She kept watching the words. -- Markus Zusak
Curiosity must be kept alive. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Milk Duds kept me going. -- Nora Dunn
I always kept myself fairly fit. -- Joel Edgerton
Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When I kept surfing, surfing kept me. -- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
Character is much easier kept than recovered. -- Thomas Paine
Being nervous actually kept me very tense. -- Kate Bush
Bad promises are better broken than kept. -- Abraham Lincoln
Music kept me sane between acting jobs. -- Chris Carmack
Starbucks has kept me in the ministry. -- Tommy Barnett
Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets, -- Aliko Dangote
Saints are sinners who kept on going. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
My role models have kept on changing. -- Kapil Dev
I've kept a diary since I was 11. -- Evelyn Glennie
In those days secrets were well kept. -- Stuart Symington
Let your poem be kept nine years. -- Horace
The attention is to be kept pure. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom. -- Dred Scott
Keep up and you will be kept up. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed. -- Heraclitus
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler
A promise made must be a promise kept. -- Aristotle
Friends are like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler
The world is kept alive only by heretics. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
The bond of love must be kept strong. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A promise made should be a promise kept. -- Steve Forbes
I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money. -- Estella Warren
Words not kept break more than a promise. -- Ron Kaufman
I think the wrong things are kept private -- Nan Goldin
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice. -- Thomas Paine
I believe nakedness shouldn't be kept in the dark. -- Faye Resnick
The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept. -- Sun Tzu
Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets. -- Jill Biden
In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises. -- Fred Allen
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. -- Constance Baker Motley
Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept. -- Laura Schlessinger
Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades. -- Olga Broumas
Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow -- T. S. Eliot
Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. -- Elie Wiesel
I'd learned that some things are best kept secret. -- Nicholas Sparks
Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off. -- George Herbert
I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out. -- Spencer Dryden
Writers speak for those who are kept in silence -- Isabel Allende
What the father kept silent the son speaks out. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt. -- Samuel Johnson
My health, thank God, has kept my brain alive. -- Don Rickles
I'm a little shot that just kept on shooting. -- Harvey Mackay
Time is the best kept secret of the rich. -- Jim Rohn
For years I've kept a list of dream projects. -- Michael Bolton
Character must be kept bright as well as clean. -- Lord Chesterfield
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry -- Paul Muldoon
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake. -- Jonathan Franzen
A man should be upright, not be kept upright. -- Marcus Aurelius
The race of the guardians must be kept pure. -- Plato
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple. -- Dick Dale
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. -- Steven Wright
I went to a regular school... education kept me sane. -- Romeo Miller
I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species. -- Leonard Michaels
The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity. -- Siegfried Sassoon
Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent -- Publilius Syrus
Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have. -- Harvey Penick
European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept. -- Roger Daltrey
I was dying inside, they kept looking for bleeding scars -- Aanchal Negi
Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time. -- Matthew Henry
I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma -- Natsuki Takaya
From one match to the next, I kept on winning. -- Tracy Austin
Time kept on and on like the cheapest toilet paper. -- Porochista Khakpour
My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit. -- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. -- Tennessee Williams
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path. -- Tommy Lasorda
A man kept his character even when he was insane. -- Graham Greene
I don't have any secrets I need kept any more. -- Frank Ocean
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. -- Stephen Harper
They kept the lie going, and the people loved it. -- Libba Bray
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection. -- Horace
I agree that there are things that should be kept secret. -- Daniel Ellsberg
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. -- E. W. Howe
I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting! -- Stewart Francis
If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease. -- Socrates
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. -- H. G. Wells
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. -- Mae West
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. -- Marcus Aurelius
Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept. -- Lord Chesterfield
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. -- Alexander Pope
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife. -- Desi Arnaz

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