I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain…

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.

— Garth Brooks

My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about an erotics…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“save my precious hide, trying to preserve the few pieces of meat that hid my bones.”

— Anonymous

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

— Philip Larkin

“I've spent a life chasing stories to tell when I'm old.”

— Atticus Poetry

You can’t be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with

— Nicole Williams

First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing.

— Gyles Brandreth

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

— Anonymous

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“you’ve spent so much of your life doing what others expect of you. i think it’s time you start doing things for yourself.”

— Kiana Azizian

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

— Don DeLillo

“I’d spent my life until now as a cog in one person’s machine – could I turn around and become the instrument of another.”

— Meagan Spooner

I spent much of my life hiding.

— Kevyn Aucoin

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.”

— Deanna L. Lawlis