Keeps Quotes - page 4

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps. (Harold Macmillan)
And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. View quote
Michelle Obama
‎Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live. View quote
Haruki Murakami
He who keeps his cool best wins. View quote
Norman Cousins
Sanya, Knight of the Cross: Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. View quote
Jim Butcher
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. View quote
John Donne
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form-knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration. View quote
Henry Moore
You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young. View quote
Kim Wilde
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. (Margaret Atwood)
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes. View quote
Aaron Klug
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I see what keeps people young: work! View quote
Ted Turner
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. View quote
Steven Wright
Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live. View quote
Cesare Pavese
It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you. View quote
Bon Scott
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away. View quote
John Wesley
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters. View quote
Upton Sinclair
You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps. (L. Ron Hubbard)
It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. "Obedience keeps the rules," he would say. "Love knows when to break them." View quote
Anthony de Mello
From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write. View quote
Amy Poehler