Maintains Quotes

128 Maintains quotes by 111 unique authors

Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings,… — Allan Kaprow
What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief… — Austin Farrer
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. — Alister E. McGrath
Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!. — Johann Most
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. — Kenneth Kaunda
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state… — Kenneth Kaunda
Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about — Salvatore Ferragamo
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise… — Austin Farrer
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise… — Frank Herbert
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. — Maxwell Maltz
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. — Charles Spurgeon
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and… — Malcolm Turnbull
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal… — Terry Tempest Williams
...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look… — Luce Irigaray
Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens… — John Green
God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that… — J.P. Moreland
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall… — Frank O'Hara
And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special… — Erving Goffman
A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor. — Sean Covey
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living.… — Emile M. Cioran
When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind.… — Anne Michaels
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control.… — Eckhart Tolle

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