Because with true friends, no one is keeping score. But it still feels good to repay them – even in the tiniest increments.
I realized someone else might tell you you're pretty. I'd do anything to keep you away from that person.
Go ahead, look at the message. You know you want to.” “No, it doesn’t matter.” “Then why do you keep staring at it like it’s the last piece of food on earth?
Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.
I keep hearing that being a geek is cool now, but I'm not sure the rest of the world has gotten the memo
I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
In my experience, people who want to keep their painful injuries are using them as a crutch. They’re hiding from something.
That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.
The thing about friends is, you never know when you might need them. It's always best to keep them imprisoned nearby.
Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.
If you desire it, you must punish yourself for the sake of learning, seek every advantage in keeping up with the other clerks and in excelling them. You must study with the fervor of the blessed or the cursed.
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
But life isn't really about just geting by. Right when you've lulled yourself into a false sense of security, it likes to throw in a plot twist. Keep you on your toes.
people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on graves.
How to get and keep men interested in you (A Guide for the Modern Woman): Put them in the “friend” or “fuck” zone. Leave them there.
Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.
We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way.”~ Amunhotep El Bey
He wondered if perhaps, subconsciously, he was trying to sabotage her efforts by setting the bar too high, trying to keep her with him longer; but surely his subconscious wasn't that stupid?