Keeps Quotes

The Master said, "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." (Confucius)
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. View quote
Dorothy Dix
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. View quote
Waylon Jennings
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. View quote
Edmund Waller
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The fear of becoming a "has been" keeps some people from becoming anything. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. View quote
Franz Kafka
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. View quote
Sam Rayburn
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. (Edmund Burke)
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. View quote
Henry James
I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps. View quote
George R. R. Martin
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. View quote
Joseph Addison
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet. View quote
George Foreman
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. View quote
Woody Allen
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Your memory is a monster; you forget-it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you-and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! View quote
John Irving
Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. View quote
W. C. Fields
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. View quote
Konrad Lorenz
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. View quote
Jean Cocteau
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable. View quote
Christine Vachon
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. View quote
Pythagoras