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A cluster of ships rocked and tugged at anchor in the bay, sheltered somewhat by a reef. — Emilio Salgari

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that. — Joel Kinnaman

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay — David Foster Wallace

He was an ocean of want and need. All the raging, submerged currents that he'd kept at bay unleashed themselves on me. — Leylah Attar

LIV. There is no 'one cap fits all' solution for keeping stress at bay. You have to choose individually. — Moazzam Shaikh

It was not full dark where I lay; the fire kept the worst of the shadows at bay. Curiously, — Christine Pope

Keeps the Flare at bay because the virus thrives in your brain. Eats at it, destroys it. If there's not a lot of activity, the virus weakens. — James Dashner

Perhaps everyone possessed a darker self kept at bay by circumstance. — Mark Haddon

whatever you use to keep the pain at bay robs you of the flecks and nuggets of gold that feeling grief will give you. — Anne Lamott

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay ... — Van Morrison

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal. — Wally Schirra

mobs will be kept at bay, since they cannot climb ladders! Save — Malcolm Becker

Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality. — Richard Wright

A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay — Marcia Carrington

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it. — Alexander Theroux

To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one. — Toni Morrison

I'm at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. I've got my dogs as surrogates, but I'm ready for kids. — Michael Bay

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. — Douglas MacArthur

It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay. — Lara Adrian

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. — Raoul Vaneigem

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel. — Michael Bay

When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster. — Alain Ducasse

Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. — Voltaire

I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay. — Dominic Cooper

The only way to keep fear and panic at bay was to concentrate ruthlessly on the job at hand. — Lee Child

Oh yes, I kept all of the abominations at bay while Kaliel played with his favorite sheep behind the bushes. — Christopher Moore

The woman who keeps her emotions at bay can find the way. — Orest Stelmach

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean. — Natalie Gulbis

The human mind was very clever at tricking itself, at keeping the despair of inevitability at bay. — Brandon Sanderson

The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay. — George R R Martin

In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay. — Veronica Roth

A smile a day keeps trouble at bay — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Though slow to quarrel, and for sport killing nothing that lived, they were doughty at bay, and at need could still handle arms. — J.R.R. Tolkien

... believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't. — Louise Penny

My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay. — Donna Mills

Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep. — Trish Doller

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores. — Jeff Bezos

As the sun shines I will make hay
To keep failure at bay
For there remaineth a pay
For my honest toil each day. — Ogwo David Emenike

He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand. — Mitch Albom

You were the one, I wanted most to stay.
But time could not be kept at bay.
The more it goes, the more it's gone, the more it takes away. — Lang Leav

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again. — Veronica Roth

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices. — Sharon Kay Penman

But what I am done with is waiting for when things are better. I'm done waiting for the pain to be all gone. I'm done trying to keep it at bay. — Heidi Cullinan

Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security. — Jeff Miller

The wandering elephants, giraffes and buffalos of Tsavo will be kept at bay by a 1.8-meter reinforced concrete and metal mesh fence. — Gavin Serkin

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large. — Bernard Levin

I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay ... small acts of kindness and love. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay. — Monica Seles

I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers', it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring. — Michael Bay

When you pray for your wife, it keeps the world at bay, it transforms selfish hearts, and it derails the devil's plans. — Stormie O'martian

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully. — Elton John

No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste. — Swami Vivekananda

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay. — Jeanne Moreau

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward. — Mark Ruffalo

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me. — Boris Pasternak

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. — William Styron

Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared. — Lloyd Alexander

It was raining heavily outside my window, April showers, keeping the current Michigan spring gloom at bay. — Justin Bog

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? — Paulo Coelho

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. — Leigh Bardugo

This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.' — Janet Morris

Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Do not press an enemy at bay. — Sun Tzu

Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry. — Honore De Balzac

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay. — Jodi Picoult

Scarecrow queen. Nothing but a dupe, alone in a field, hoping to keep the crows at bay. — Melinda Salisbury

It takes so much energy to keep things at bay. — Sue Monk Kidd

Brightport looked so small: a cluster of low buildings, all huddled around a tiny horseshoe-shaped bay, a lighthouse at one — Liz Kessler

Pleasuring her might've kept the blackness at bay , but if I took her, if I selfishly fucked her to sate myself, was there a chance I could kill her? — Keri Lake

Did she have to be so downright fetching in her refusal?
Taking Annie back, he struck a sterner pose in order to keep all comers at bay. — Laura Frantz

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. — Moby

Just as I've always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I've always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay. — Patricia Briggs

A rationalization a day keeps your conscience at bay. — Anthony O'Neill

I'm going to take each day and each thing and each gig as it comes at me. — James Bay

I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football. — James Bay

Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her. — Edith Wharton

She's my dream catcher. She keeps my nightmares at bay. — E.L. James

And that sometimes, just sometimes, it is the light reflected off of polished steel that can keep the shadows at bay. — Jason L. McWhirter

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American. — Jason Bay

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats. — Ray Bradbury

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death. — Terry Pratchett

I don't take orders from you." Then Skelly looked out the landing bay entrance at Cynda. He winked. "I saved you, sweetheart!" He pushed the button. — John Jackson Miller