#keep

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. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#answer #back #because #coming #get

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#alive #because #certain #feel #fully

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. ↗

— John Major

#believe #consensus #does #keeps #people

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#amongst #arms #become #buying #each

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly. ↗

— Janet Malcolm

#away #between #cover #form #having

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded. ↗

— Wendie Malick

#helps #here #keep #kind #machine

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#allah #around #avengers #before #bush

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.' ↗

— Lili Taylor

#before #biological #body #clock #data

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#coming #head #i #i always #keep

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#i #i do #keep #particle #physics