Maintenance Quotes
217 quotes by 195 authors
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Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so…
— Jerry Brown
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The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a…
— Walter Russell Mead
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Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse…
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
— Mark Steyn
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Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
— Learned Hand
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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
— Ivan Illich
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No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge…
— Becki Newton
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Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research.…
— John L. Phillips
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We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
— Guy Ritchie
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In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer,…
— Tony Visconti
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I am ridiculously high-maintenance.
— Rufus Wainwright
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Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a…
— Dave Barry
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In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.
— Leighton Meester
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
— Yasmine Bleeth
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but…
— Valerie Bertinelli
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I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time…
— Elisha Cuthbert
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Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.
— Sloane Crosley
Who Wrote These Maintenance Quotes
195 authors contributed a total of 217 Maintenance Quotes, led by these top contributors: