Maintained Quotes

343 quotes by 304 authors

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out. — Terry Tempest Williams
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its… — Mikhail Bulgakov
There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our… — Thomas Merton
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength. — Victor Hugo
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle — Debbie Macomber
I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained… — James E. Faust
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph… — Dorothy Thompson
When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to… — Kingsley Amis
She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, lonelinessâ€¦ but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable. — Lisa Kleypas
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had… — Lionel Shriver
Great empires are not maintained by timidity. — Tacitus
Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever. — Mira Grant
I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully… — Haruki Murakami
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through… — Charles Dickens
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? — Angela Carter
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in… — Philip Pullman
His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To… — Patricia Briggs
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,… — Vincent Van Gogh
He carefully maintained the blasÃ© air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too — Cassandra Clare

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