Maintain Quotes

1285 Maintain quotes by 1035 unique authors

The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. — Barry Hughart
So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity… — Richard P. Feynman
Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself… — Louis Althusser
Sometimes I worry that there’s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I’m a hard drive with limited gigabytes… — Karen Marie Moning
If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself. — David Eddings
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for… — May Sarton
A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his… — Garth Stein
Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a… — Julia Quinn
Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your… — Cecelia Ahern
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually… — Haruki Murakami
To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search… — Charles Darwin
If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner. — Arthur Schopenhauer
She smiled then, an adorable, sweet smile that took his breath away. He forgot all about trying to maintain an air of civility. His inner… — Maya Banks
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the… — George Carlin
It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ? — Arthur Rimbaud
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case… — Frederick Douglass
Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the… — Gore Vidal
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative,… — Oliver Sacks
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. — Jonathan Franzen
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain. — Robert K. Greenleaf
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are… — Arundhati Roy
Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control. — Ellen Hopkins
The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. — Margaret Bourke-White

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