I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours. " I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas. "
The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff. . . and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.
He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.
Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.
Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.
We still have hope; it is what keeps us going.
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
That, who keeps his mouth, keeps his Soul.
Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.