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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.
That's not to say I came from the streets or anything - most of the time I was on my grandmother's back porch. I was kept in a constant state of amniotic fluid.
I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.
Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.
I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.
I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?
The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.
I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
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.
I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.
I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up.
Yeah, I went for the TNT title and didn't work out, but I kept kicking some butt, throwing people in ceilings and waiting my turn.
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.
Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other's strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.
Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.
Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.
The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.
I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.
Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
I also watched boxing all the time and Tuesday Night Fights on USA and just kept hitting my heavy back in the garage.
The capital city of Grozny in Chechnya was reduced completely to rubble, and Putin thought this was worthwhile because it kept the state together.
I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.
I was angry and sad that people kept commenting on my pictures saying, 'You're too fat to wear that!' or 'Cover up! No one wants to see that!'
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.
Forming communities - even and especially ones based on strong loyalties and allegiances - is in our DNA. It's what's kept us alive for millions of years.
What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.
Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.
What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation.
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
Although we dealt decisively with all terrorist organizations, we at the same time not only maintained, preserved our democracy, but kept improving it.
Gladys.. work has kept you fit
And Bill.. you never moan
Well life's not for carrying cases
With a butler of your own
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
I never felt that it was in anyone's best interest to be looked at differently by other people because of a name. I kept to myself a lot.
A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it's a legacy that should be kept alive. In the future, it's something I really want.
I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.
One of the greatest blessings we can offer to the world is the power of a Christ-centered home where the gospel is taught, covenants are kept, and love abounds.
Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.
Our daughter is a miracle baby, and having time with her and my sons means everything to me - they're why I kept fighting.
