#keeping

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections. ↗

— John H. Speke

#collections #consisted #diary #geological #keeping

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#being #good #good manager #hate #keeping

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#accounts #after #asset #capital #corporation

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie. ↗

— Denise Richards

#i #just #keeping #private #same

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#getting-things-done #keeping-faith #faith

Housework can kill you if done right. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#housekeeping #humor #humor

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#housekeeping #inspirational #inspirational

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes. ↗

— Patrice Kindl

#althea-crawley #arguing #comfort #convenience #engagement

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#another #another way #diary #just #keeping