The phrase "a quest to keep" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort or journey aimed at maintaining something, such as a goal, value, or relationship.
Example: "The organization embarked on a quest to keep the community engaged and informed about local issues."
Alternatives: "an effort to maintain" or "a mission to preserve".
To the rescue (on a Sunday no less) is Cluny Brown Jennifer Joness), a plumber's niece who's been dying to try out her own techniques with hammers and wrenches in a quest to keep English pipelines "flowing properly".
Legend (probably a false legend) has it Iceland was named by some sneaky Vikings who, in a quest to keep it all to themselves, tried to hide the fact that their new settlement was actually a lush, green wonderland worthy of envy from the entire Nordic world.
"The fact is, a massive amount of paper has been wasted by defendant in a quixotic quest to keep much of the plaintiffs' case from the jury," Judge McMahon wrote.
Meanwhile, in Sacramento, Ms. Hancock has begun a quixotic quest to keep California voters from weighing in on whether online retailers should be required to collect sales tax.
Nancy's error seems to have been that she always focussed on the day, in a ceaseless quest to keep peace in the home she shared with the hypersensitive, controlling, increasingly hostile stranger who was her son.
A moment's reflection would have suggested to him that this was unlikely, but he's the sort of kid who has every kind of sense except common sense, and, anyway, he needs a heroic quest to keep himself from falling apart.
What was left, and now feeds national anger, was a hard quest to keep house, habits and hope intact while the now bailed-out fat cats who'd invented securitized mortgages sloped off into the sunset, and veterans, scarred from faraway wars, limped back to the "homeland," once just home.
The Unconventional Wisdom PC makers have for years been on a quixotic quest to keep their machines relevant in the face of increasingly powerful non-PC devices.
-- who made "Party Unity My Ass" their mantra and got a lot of media attention (primarily from Fox News) for employing incoherent racism as their chief weapon in a deluded quest to keep alive the Hillary-Obama division and make John McCain president.
It may come as quite the shock to learn that a moral paragon, such as yourself, is not alone in the quest to keep a child from harm.
In your quest to keep a clean, organized desk or office, you might run the risk of getting rid of documents you must keep under the law.
