Maintaining Quotes

324 quotes by 290 authors

Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates… — Sam Harris
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting,… — Albert Schweitzer
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. — Voltaire
Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To… — Milan Kundera
Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder… — Andrew Sullivan
But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have… — Glenn Beck
While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance. He would talk about flowers and… — Gena Showalter
It is not easy to be at peace in todayâ€™s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. â€¦ It can be attained only through… — Spencer W. Kimball
Tell me about it. Itâ€™s so hard to deal with a single parent. They take out all their anxiety on you. Itâ€™s like, sheâ€™s so… — Susane Colasanti
â€¦â€œwhite supremacyâ€ is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not… — Bell Hooks
Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left… — John D. MacDonald
Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them? — Jean-Paul Sartre
In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend… — Taylor Swift
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how youâ€™re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes… — Oprah Winfrey
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. — Marian Keyes
Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it. — Joyce Meyer
And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: heâ€™d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But itâ€™s about maintaining contact.… — Cassandra Clare
I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Princeâ€”value Aâ€”to kill monstersâ€”value Bâ€”for the purpose of establishing orderâ€”value… — Catherynne M. Valente
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of… — Michel Foucault

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