Maintain Quotes
1285 Maintain quotes by 1035 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?
— Arthur Rimbaud
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[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
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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
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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
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Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
— Jonathan Franzen
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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
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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
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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
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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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I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.†The things…
— Susan Sontag
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In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The…
— Masashi Kishimoto
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You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.
— Richard Carlson
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National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain…
— Carl Sagan
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