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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

I think Democrats keep the commandments of the Lord more.

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.