Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:
“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Like a canoe route across the great lake on whose shore
One is left trapped, grumbling not so much at bad luck as
Because only this one side of experience is ever revealed.
And that meant something.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The “good” are too cowardly to do it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)