Keeps Quotes - page 7

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia." "Huh?" I asked. "You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. (John Green (author))
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in. View quote
John Green (author)
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. View quote
Jim Rohn
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. View quote
William Shakespeare
For me the art world is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future. View quote
Ilya Kabakov
A man is known by the silence he keeps. View quote
Oliver Herford
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: "Elitism!" And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. "Standing out" is undemocratic. View quote
Jacques Barzun
Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down. View quote
Wesley Willis
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. View quote
Elizabeth I of England
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says that you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says that you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing. View quote
Toni Morrison
I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. View quote
Walter Scott
A love of nature keeps no factories busy. View quote
Aldous Huxley
We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. View quote
Joseph Conrad
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. View quote
Walt Disney
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. View quote
Henry Ford
A man is known by the company his mind keeps. View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper. View quote
Albert Einstein
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time. View quote
Victoria of the United Kingdom
What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy. (Dennis Miller)
How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men! View quote
Vincent Massey
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. View quote
Taisen Deshimaru
It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in. View quote
Randall Jarrell