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The pursuit of perfection keeps us from joy, love, peace, hope, and so many of the other gifts God intends for us.
— Holley Gerth
Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.
— Josh Duhamel
The spirit of fun keeps your dating life interesting and not boring.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.
— Cinda Williams Chima
He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
— George Orwell
I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn
For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food. — Joyce Kilmer
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food. — Joyce Kilmer
I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.
— Marjane Satrapi
I can't help myself. I can't let him go. I'm as bound to him as the moon is to the earth. He keeps me in orbit; and maybe I do the same for him.
— J.H. Trumble
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
— C.S. Lewis
The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
— Harold Macmillan
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
— Billy Joel
Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.
— Jim Rash
Many have forgotten who our true enemy is. Satan is not playing a game with us. He is playing for keeps. He is out to destroy us.
— Ruben Barreto
Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.
— Gus Kyle
Family is worth dying for, killing for. Fighting for them is all that keeps us going when everything else is gone.
— Sabaa Tahir
I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.
— George A Tice
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
— Tamara Tunie
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
— Ernest K. Gann
Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.
— Graham Sutherland
If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive?
— Beth Revis
The key to great fried squid is 'flash-frying' in hot oil for only a few minutes, which keeps it tender.
— Tom Douglas
It's slow poison; you make them believe it's real, and it keeps them coming back for more.
— Tarryn Fisher
A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.
— Gary L. Blackwood
Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
— Annie Leibovitz
The earth is round for a reason. Your minimum effort starts you at the top of the world; your maximum effort keeps you there.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.
— Tom Jones
Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.
— Carolyn Keene
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.
— Robin Marantz Henig
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
— Robert Frost
My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.
— F.K. Preston
Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
You MUST do what you love. Sometimes your passion will be the only thing that keeps you motivated.
— Faydra D. Fields
Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on.
— John Patrick Hickey
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
— Winona LaDuke
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
— Dinah Maria Mulock
The Archer always keeps an arrow in her quiver for you; interrupt my shot again, and I will give it to you directly.
— Kresley Cole
England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Marie keeps asking for books about zombies and I keep telling her I can't read nonfiction for story time, but . .
— Isaac Marion
When God keeps away certain people from you, it may be that the person is not good for you.
— Norhafsah Hamid
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
(Hippocampi are so my newest favorite mythological creature. I keep asking my husband for one. He keeps saying no, the griffin wouldn't like it.)
— Rick Riordan
For some reason, the strength and deadliness he keeps so easily leashed make him the most compelling man I've ever met. I envy his self-control.
— Amanda Bouchet
166 I y hope for your salvation, O LORD, and I do your commandments. 167 My soul keeps your testimonies; I v love them exceedingly.
— Anonymous
Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
— Byron Katie
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
Just know life keeps moving forward, and the hits life gives you are for a reason, to make you a better, stronger and wiser person.
*Miss J* — Miss J
*Miss J* — Miss J
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
— Helen Keller
I want to be that person for him, I want to be the one who keeps him going during this difficult time.
— Jenny Han
Because life is not a fairytale, but we all need that one person who keeps the dream alive. You are that person for me.
— E.K. Blair
Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits.
-David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme- — Lora Leigh
-David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme- — Lora Leigh
It's good for him. No man should get every woman he wants. Keeps their douchebaggery to a tolerable level.
— Jamie McGuire
What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.
— Janet Mock
God is there waiting for you. He wants the best for you and that is why He keeps on presenting Himself to you.
— George Calleja
A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
— Christian Adam Ribeiraud
This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon.
— Cathie Pelletier
A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.
— Edward Noyes Westcott
I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
— Maceo Parker
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'
— Allison Williams
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
— Lillian Gordy Carter
At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
— Oswald Chambers
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
— George Lucas
Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Remember? I'm the one who keeps you safe. I'm the one that would die for you and all that? why, want me to prove my loyalty?
— Rachel Van Dyken
For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.
— Ilya Kabakov
Of course time doesn't stop for anyone; alcohol just keeps you from feeling it, the way it'll keep a man cozy while he freezes to death.
— Tim Kreider
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.
— William J.H. Boetcker
Keeps in mind that all rational things are related, and that to care for all human beings is part of being human. Which
— Marcus Aurelius
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
— Robert Reich
But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.
— Agatha Christie
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
— Arnold Bennett
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive.
— Jack R. Rose
She's only got eight fingers but she's got them stuck in all kinds of pies, and she keeps her thumbs bare for testing new ones.
— Catherine Cookson
Longing for the past keeps us looking back; but hoping in a brighter future keeps us looking up! EL
— Evinda Lepins
A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.
— Kate Morton
That's what she keeps you around for, to diddle her fiddle. Because you're low-hung and she's high-strung!
— Jim Thompson
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 need honor in my life from somebody playing for keeps.
— LeAnn Rimes