#kept

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#religion #skepticism #worship #age

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#alive #childish #cowardice #discover #easy

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#fighting #increasing #indians #kept #numbers

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me. ↗

— Larry David

#eventually #i #kept #me #quite

The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#be careful #british #careful #change #changes

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now. ↗

— Lewis Black

#even #i #kept #louder #more

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times. ↗

— William Bell

#almost #around #big #blues #blues brothers

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others. ↗

— Linda Blair

#companion #countless #find #going #golden

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#ball player #become #big #big leagues #boy

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. ↗

— Otto Dix

#after #afterwards #along #badly #could